EQUATION-OF-STATE AND PHASE-TRANSITION IN MODELS OF ORDINARY ASTROPHYSICAL MATTER

Equation-of-State and Phase-Transition in Models of Ordinary Astrophysical Matter

Vladan Celebonovic, Institute of Physics, Zemun-Beograd, Serbia and Montenegro ; Douglas Gough, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Werner Dappen, University of Southern California, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Conference Location and Date: Leiden, The Netherlands, 2-11 June 2004

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics; Plasma Physics

Published November 2004; ISBN 0-7354-0213-2 One Volume, Print; 322 pages; 6 3/8 X 9 1/4 inches; Softcover; $128.00

Readership: Astrophysicists with an interest in solar and stellar modeling, plasma physicists with an interest in plasma diagnostics, physicists with an interest in nuclear fusion as a new energy source, physicists with an interest in statistical mechanics, scientists at universities and research laboratories, and graduate students starting research in this field

All papers were peer-reviewed. The aim of the workshop was to bring together physicists and astronomers with an interest in this interdisciplinary field. Breakthroughs announced during the workshop include: a report that a near-ten-year controversy about high-pressure experiments with hydrogen and deuterium has ended; a demonstration that dynamical effects in screening enhancements of nuclear reactions must be taken seriously; a critical assessment of systematic errors in observational helioseismological data; and a collective relaization that right now there is a remarkable number of independent advanced formalisms for astrophysically useful equations of state.

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