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Implications of {\sigma}-cut potential on Antikaon condensates in neutron stars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-02-27 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the properties of neutron stars with antikaon condensation in the framework of the Relativistic Mean-Field (RMF) model with a σ\sigma-cut potential. The well-known RMF models, TM1 and TM1e, are used to analyze the structure and composition of neutron stars. The antikaon condensation part of the equation of state (EoS) is constrained from the experimental data of K^{-} atomic and kaon-nucleon scattering. The σ\sigma-cut potential, which is known to make the EoS stiffer at high densities, is modulated by a free parameter fsf_{s}. Our present analysis suggests that one can obtain neutron star configurations heavier than 2MM_{\odot} with antikaon condensates in most cases for fsf_{s} = 0.6. The antikaon phase transition is a second-order for fsf_{s} = 0.6 for both TM1 and TM1e parameter sets. The calculated global properties of neutron stars with antikaon condensates i.e., mass and radius seem to be in resonable agreement with other theoretical and observational data.

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@article{arxiv.2502.18882,
  title  = {Implications of {\sigma}-cut potential on Antikaon condensates in neutron stars},
  author = {Prashant Thakur and Yashmitha Kumaran and Lakshana Sudarsan and Krishna Kunnampully and B. K. Sharma and T. K. Jha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.18882},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, 10 figures Accepted in Physical Review C (PRC) on 25-02-2025