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Hybrid stars with the Dyson-Schwinger quark model

Nuclear Theory 2011-11-23 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the hadron-quark phase transition in the interior of neutron stars. For the hadronic sector, we use a microscopic equation of state involving nucleons and hyperons derived within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock many-body theory with realistic two-body and three-body forces. For the description of quark matter, we employ the Dyson-Schwinger approach and compare with the MIT bag model. We calculate the structure of neutron star interiors comprising both phases and find that with the Dyson-Schwinger model, the hadron-quark phase transition takes place only when hyperons are excluded, and that a two-solar-mass hybrid star is possible only if the nucleonic equation of state is stiff enough.

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@article{arxiv.1107.2497,
  title  = {Hybrid stars with the Dyson-Schwinger quark model},
  author = {H. Chen and M. Baldo and G. F. Burgio and H. -J. Schulze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.2497},
  year   = {2011}
}

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10 pages, 8 figures