{"id":1913,"date":"2011-05-01T19:32:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T19:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:37:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:37:05","slug":"evaluating-the-stability-of-electroweak-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/evaluating-the-stability-of-electroweak-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating the Stability of Electroweak Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"style21\" align=\"center\"><span class=\"style22\">Benjamin Elder with Glenn Starkman<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span class=\"style21\"><span class=\"style20\"><em><u>Evaluating the Stability of Electroweak Stars<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p align=\"justify\">It is believed that at extremely high temperatures a process called electroweak burning can occur wherein 9 quarks become 3 leptons.\u00a0 Experimental evidence of this process is desired, yet even the most powerful particle accelerators are unable to create the necessary temperatures.\u00a0 Looking elsewhere, it is possible that adequate conditions could exist in the center of a star, and indeed an equilibrium solution has been found.\u00a0 This solution has a central density and temperature that is far higher than the limit of stability of neutron stars, and so would normally be unstable.\u00a0 However, it has been shown that the leptons created in the burning process can escape from the star, allowing the burning process to continue, providing the extra support required to counteract gravitational collapse.\u00a0 Although this demonstrates that such a star can exist in principle, it does not guarantee stability.\u00a0 In this project, I will investigate whether or not the known solution is stable to radial perturbations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Elder with Glenn Starkman<em>Evaluating the Stability of Electroweak Stars<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It is believed that at extremely high temperatures a process called electroweak burning can occur wherein 9 quarks become 3 leptons.\u00a0 Experimental evidence of this process is desired, yet even the most powerful particle accelerators are unable to create the necessary temperatures.\u00a0 Looking elsewhere, it is possible that adequate conditions could exist in the center of a star, and indeed an equilibrium solution has been found.\u00a0 This solution has a central density and temperature that is far higher than the limit of stability of neutron stars,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/evaluating-the-stability-of-electroweak-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evaluating the Stability of Electroweak Stars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[47,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}