In-medium hyperon potentials and the quarkyonic hyperon onset: charged $Σ$'s in $β$-equilibrium and the neutrino connection
Abstract
Quarkyonic matter resolves the neutron-star hyperon puzzle statistically: neutrons fill low-momentum -quark phase space, shifting the threshold from to and suppressing residual softening by in the Fujimoto--Kojo--McLerran (FKM) mechanism. We dress FKM's IdylliQ model with in-medium potentials, constrained by hypernuclear data and neutrino-induced hyperon FSI, and find: (i) the dressed onset, , carries at weight 2, with per , twice the leverage. (ii) A self-consistent neutron potential enters at weight , so protection needs . (iii) With leptons in equilibrium, the () onset becomes , never reached inside a core: switches from first hyperon to forbidden and the ordering inverts. (iv) The continuation gives TOV softening below in the FKM ansatz family and below for the realistic interacting star, -- below hadronic models. In the family this is a ceiling; generally it is a floor, since hyperons above are omitted. (v) In an interacting low-density sector calibrated to , core strangeness is controlled by : at , the maximum-mass star is hyperon-free once the supra-saturation turn-over exceeds a few-MeV threshold . Projected SBND+DUNE FSI precision pins but leaves -- to which neutrino data are blind -- decisive: with the heavy-ion prior, , versus from priors alone, prior-dominated rather than measured. The sharpest observable is differential: is an order of magnitude smaller than in mean-field models, discriminating the two resolutions.
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@article{arxiv.2607.09280,
title = {In-medium hyperon potentials and the quarkyonic hyperon onset: charged $Σ$'s in $β$-equilibrium and the neutrino connection},
author = {Jaroslaw Nowak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.09280},
year = {2026}
}
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9 pages, 6 figures