Neutron star structure from QCD
Nuclear Theory
2016-04-20 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
In this review article, we argue that our current understanding of the thermodynamic properties of cold QCD matter, originating from first principles calculations at high and low densities, can be used to efficiently constrain the macroscopic properties of neutron stars. In particular, we demonstrate that combining state-of-the-art results from Chiral Effective Theory and perturbative QCD with the current bounds on neutron star masses, the Equation of State of neutron star matter can be obtained to an accuracy better than 30% at all densities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.05019,
title = {Neutron star structure from QCD},
author = {Eduardo S. Fraga and Aleksi Kurkela and Aleksi Vuorinen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.05019},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Invited contribution to the EPJA Topical Issue "Exotic Matter in Neutron Stars"; 10 pages, 13 figures