André R. Taurines

Who I am . . .

• Name: André Ribeiro Taurines
• Occupation: Lecturer at Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS),
  
• Previous positions:
  • Swansea University, Wales/UK, Post-doc (2006-2007).
  • Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT), Sao Paulo/Brazil, Post-doc (2003-2005).
• Degrees: PhD UFRGS, 2003 My thesis (portuguese) ; M.Sc., UFRGS, 1999; B.S. UFRGS, 1997.

Where I am . . .

• Office: Unidade Guaiba
• Office phone: +55 51 3491-4042
• Department address: Estrada de Santa Maria, 2300,Guaiba,RS,Brazil.
• Contact:  3456andre_taurines8792@yahoo.com.br (<-remove the numbers)

What I do . . .

• Research interests:
• quantum fields on the lattice (Lattice QCD)
• finite density
• lattice gluon propagator
• effective field theories
• phenomenological models of nuclear matter
• compact stars
• Collaborations:
• Gastao Krein (IFT-UNESP) Homepage
• Attilio Cucchieri and Tereza Mendes (USP-São Carlos) Homepage
• Cesar A. Z. Vasconcellos (UFRGS) Homepage
• Manuel Malheiro (UFF)
• Curriculum Vitae  English   (Lattes)

Main Publications

• Color Superconductivity and Quark Stars ,
  M. Malheiro,L.P. Linares,M. Fiolhais,A.R. Taurines.
  Nuclear Physics A790 (2007) 562c–565c


• The color flavor locked phase in the chromodielectric model and quark stars ,
  L.P. Linares, M. Malheiro,A.R. Taurines,M. Fiolhais.
  Braz.J.Phys.36:1391-1396,2006


• Positivity violation for the lattice Landau gluon propagator ,
  A. Cucchieri, T. Mendes, A. R. Taurines
  Physical Review D 71, 051902, 2005 (hep-lat/0406020)
 
• SU(2) Landau gluon propagator on a 140**3 lattice ,
  A. Cucchieri, T. Mendes, A. R. Taurines
  Physical Review D 67, 091502, 2003 (hep-lat/0302022 ).
 
• Naturalness of nonlinear $\sigma$,$\omega$ self-couplings
  in relativistic mean-field models for neutron stars ,
  E.F. Lutz, S.S. Rocha, A.R. Taurines, G.F. Marranghello, M. Dillig, C.A.Z. Vasconcellos
  Eur. Phys. J. A 18, 483 485 (2003).
 
• Metastable strange matter and compact quark stars,
  M. Malheiro, M. Fiolhais, A.R. Taurines
  Journal of Physics G 29,1045, 2003 (astro-ph/0304096 ).
 
• The Role of Self-Couplings of Scalar Mesons in Neutron Star Matter,
  S.S. Rocha, A. R. Taurines, C. A. Z. Vasconcellos, M. Dillig, M.B. Pinto,
  Modern Physics Letters A, v. 17,  1335, (2002).
 
• Neutron Stars in a class of nonlinear relativistic models
  A. R. Taurines, C. A. Z. Vasconcellos, M. Malheiro, M. Chiapparini
  Physical Review C 63:065801,2001.
 
• Neutron Stars with parametrized meson couplings
  A.R. Taurines, C.A.Z. Vasconcellos, M. Malheiro, M. Chiapparini
  Modern Physics Letters A, v. 15, 1789 (2000) .