Strangeon Stars
Abstract
Stable micro-nucleus is 2-flavored (u and d), whereas stable macro-nucleus could be 3-flavored (u, d and s) if the light flavor symmetry restores there. Nucleons are the constituent of a nucleus, while strangeons are named as the constituent of 3-flavored baryonic matter. Gravity-compressed baryonic object created after core-collapse supernova could be strangeon star if the energy scale (~0.5 GeV) cannot be high enough for quark deconfinement and if there occurs 3-flavor symmetry restoration. Strangeon stars are explained here, including their formation and manifestation/identification. Much work, coupled with effective {micro-model} of strangeon matter, is needed to take advantage of the unique opportunities advanced facilities will provide.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1706.04707,
title = {Strangeon Stars},
author = {Jiguang Lu and Renxin Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.04707},
year = {2018}
}
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submitted to Proceedings of QCS2017, 20-22 Feb 2017, YITP, Japan