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Quark matter under strong magnetic fields in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model

Nuclear Theory 2009-04-28 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In the present work we use the large-NcN_c approximation to investigate quark matter described by the SU(2) Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model subject to a strong magnetic field. The Landau levels are filled in such a way that usual kinks appear in the effective mass and other related quantities. β\beta-equilibrium is also considered and the macroscopic properties of a magnetar described by this quark matter is obtained. Our study shows that the magnetar masses and radii are larger if the magnetic field increases but only very large fields (1018\ge 10^{18} G) affect the EoS in a non negligible way.

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@article{arxiv.0811.3361,
  title  = {Quark matter under strong magnetic fields in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model},
  author = {D. P. Menezes and M. Benghi Pinto and S. S. Avancini and A. Perez Martinez and C. Providencia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.3361},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, 9 figures