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Proto-neutron stars with quark cores

Nuclear Theory 2024-12-05 v2

Abstract

This work investigates the evolution of proto-neutron stars (PNSs) from birth as neutrino-rich objects to maturity as cold-catalyzed neutrino-poor objects with nucleonic and non-nucleonic degrees of freedom. The focus is on the star's core where the nucleons, hyperons, and the Δ\Delta-isobars are expected to dissolve into a ``soup" of deconfined quarks, at higher baryon densities, to establish a possible hadron-quark phase transition. We separately calculate the nuclear equations of state (EoS) for the hadronic matter (composed of all the baryon octet and Δ\Delta-isobars) and the strange quark matter (SQM) under the same thermodynamic conditions characteristic of PNS and proto-strange star (PSS) evolution and construct the hybrid EoS using Maxwell's construction. The study allows us to determine the hadron-quark phase transitions along the evolution lines of the star. We observed a phase transition from hadronic matter to quark matter (QM) phase when the neutrinos have completely escaped from the star's core. The EoSs utilized are constrained to meet the 2M2\,\rm M_\odot threshold in accordance with the observational data.

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@article{arxiv.2405.10386,
  title  = {Proto-neutron stars with quark cores},
  author = {Adamu Issifu and Débora P. Menezes and Zeinab Rezaei and Tobias Frederico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.10386},
  year   = {2024}
}

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20 pages, 10 figures