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Neutron Star masses from the Field Correlator Method Equation of State

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-18 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We analyse the hadron-quark phase transition in neutron stars by confronting the hadronic Equation of State (EoS) obtained according to the microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock many body theory, with the quark matter EoS derived within the Field Correlator Method. In particular, the latter EoS is only parametrized in terms of the gluon condensate and the large distance quark-antiquark potential, so that the comparison of the results of this analysis with the most recent measurements of heavy neutron star masses provides some physical constraints on these two parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1312.4464,
  title  = {Neutron Star masses from the Field Correlator Method Equation of State},
  author = {D. Zappala and G. F. Burgio and V. Greco and S. Plumari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4464},
  year   = {2015}
}

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To appear in the Proceedings of : International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics-ICNFP2013