Going from Asymmetric Nuclei to Neutron Stars to Tidal Polarizability in Gravitational Waves

Understand

Among the five-year government-funded World Class University Projects in Korea, the category-3 program approved at Hanyang University in Seoul led to an exploratory effort to go from neutron-rich nuclei to dense matter in neutron stars.

• The principal results in what transpired in the effort -- and what followed afterwards -- are described with the focus on the possibly important, hitherto unexplored, role played in nuclear dynamics of topology and hidden symmetries of QCD.
• The potential link to the proton mass problem is pointed out.