Constraining neutron star matter with QCD
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2014-06-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In recent years, there have been several successful attempts to constrain the equation of state of neutron star matter using input from low-energy nuclear physics and observational data. We demonstrate that significant further restrictions can be placed by additionally requiring the pressure to approach that of deconfined quark matter at high densities. Remarkably, the new constraints turn out to be highly insensitive to the amount --- or even presence --- of quark matter inside the stars.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.6618,
title = {Constraining neutron star matter with QCD},
author = {Aleksi Kurkela and Eduardo S. Fraga and Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich and Aleksi Vuorinen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.6618},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
9 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables