Abstract: Tidal interaction plays an important role in the inspiral of compact binaries involving neutron stars. In an adiabatic (vanishing frequency) approximation these are encode in the Love constants, which depend on the internal structure of the star. For neutron stars a general relativistic definition of the Love numbers is necessary and was only found in recent years by Hinderer, Damour&Nagar, and Poisson. In the present talk an extension to nonvanishing frequencies is discussed. The frequency-dependent Love number is in fact a propagator for an effective field theory description of a compact obje
Charybdis++ is a new version of the Charybdis2, a black hole event generator that models the production and evaporation of black holes in high energy hadronic collisions according to the ADD model.
Abstract: We discuss the main features of a phase-space noncommutative model of quantum mechanics and its applications for quantum cosmology and black holes in the context of the Kantowski-Sachs minisuperspace geometry.
Our group coordinated the "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics" IRSES network (2012-2015). Here is a list of the global network meetings organized: