Hadronic matter near the boiling point

The renaissance of life near the boiling point – at last, genetics and metabolic engineering

We discuss here the prospects for biotechnology of extreme thermophilic microorganisms.

French researchers at boiling point

Over 30,000 French scientists have signed an online petition to " save research " set up last month, with a pledge to stop their administrative duties unless the government starts listening to their complaints about funding. There is one signature for every minute that has passed since the petition — aiming to save the French public research base from the latest cuts imposed by the government —...

Hadronic matter is soft.

The stiffness of the hadronic equation of state has been extracted from the production rate of K+ mesons in heavy-ion collisions around 1 AGeV incident energy. The data are best described with a compression modulus K around 200 MeV, a value which is usually called "soft." This is concluded from a detailed comparison of the results of transport theories with the experimental data using two diffe...

Strangeness in hadronic stellar matter.

The Speed of Sound in Hadronic Matter

We calculate the speed of sound cs in an ideal gas of resonances, whose mass spectrum is assumed to have the Hagedorn form ρ(m) ∼ m exp{bm}, which leads to singular behavior at the critical temperature Tc = 1/b. With a = 4 the pressure and the energy density remain finite at Tc, while the specific heat diverges there. As a function of the temperature, the corresponding speed of sound initially ...