Structure of Stars and Nuclei

Abstract

The properties of dense hadronic and quark matter and its relation to compact stars are discussed. In a bottom-up approach one starts with nuclear and hypernuclear physics at low density and extrapolates hadronic matter to large densities. The matching to the quark matter phase is performed in a top-down approach starting at asymptotically large densities. Implications for the mass-radius relation of compact stars and the existence of a new family of solutions will be outlined.

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures, invited lectures presented at NATO Advanced Study Institute: Structure and Dynamics of Elementary Matter, Kemer, Turkey, 22 Sep - 2 Oct 2003, refs. added