Seminar in Hadronic Physics

From nuclei to neutron stars via microscopic mass models

John Michael Pearson

Département de physique
Université de Montréal

After a brief discussion of the relevance of nuclear mass models to neutron stars, I will describe the Brussels-Montreal nuclear mass models, which are based on the Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov method. I will then show how these models, along with their underlying interactions, make possible a unified treatment of all the different regions of neutron stars.