About me:
In my research I investigate ways to constrain and understand the properties of dense matter by studying neutron star mergers. Neutron star mergers are probably the most exciting cosmic laboratories of our time. Relating observed signals from mergers to the underlying microscopic physics allows us to study matter in environments impossible to create directly on earth. In order to do so we develop relativistic mean field models that describe nuclear and quark matter in the hot and dense environment of a merger. We then study how processes caused by the strong and weak interactions, for example chemical equilibration and transport properties like bulk viscosity, change the resulting gravitational wave signal.
Alexander Haber
Washington University in St. Louis