Phase Transitions in Neutron Stars
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2019-01-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In this paper we review the most common descriptions for the first order phase transition to deconfined quark matter in the core of neutron stars. We also present a new description of these phase transitions in the core of proto-neutron stars, in which more constraints are enforced so as to include trapped neutrinos. Finally, we calculate the emission of gravitational waves associated with deconfinement phase transitions, discuss the possibility of their detection, and how this would provide information about the equation of state of dense matter.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.03252,
title = {Phase Transitions in Neutron Stars},
author = {V. Dexheimer and L. T. T. Soethe and J. Roark and R. O. Gomes and S. O. Kepler and S. Schramm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03252},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Invited review for the International Journal of Modern Physics E