Rapidly Spinning Massive Pulsars as an Indicator of Quark Deconfinement
Nuclear Theory
2025-12-19 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study rotating hybrid stars, with particular emphasis on the effect of spin on the deconfinement phase transition and star properties. Our analysis is based on a hybrid equation of state with a phase transition from hadronic matter containing hyperons to color-superconducting quark matter, where the quark phase is modeled within a relativistic density functional approach. By varying the strength of the vector repulsion and diquark pairing couplings in the microscopic quark Lagrangian, we construct a set of hybrid star sequences with different quark-matter onset densities. This framework ensures consistency with astrophysical and gravitational wave constraints on mass, radius, and tidal deformability.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.07977,
title = {Rapidly Spinning Massive Pulsars as an Indicator of Quark Deconfinement},
author = {Christoph Gärtlein and Violetta Sagun and Oleksii Ivanytskyi and David Blaschke and Ilídio Lopes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07977},
year = {2025}
}
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Proceedings of XQCD 2025