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Stringent limits on quark star masses due to the chiral transition temperature

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

Recent finite-temperature QCD lattice data are analyzed within a quasiparticle model, and extrapolated to nonzero chemical potential. Determined by the chiral transition temperature, the resulting equation of state of charge neutral, β\beta-stable deconfined matter limits the mass and the size of quark stars.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0106090,
  title  = {Stringent limits on quark star masses due to the chiral transition temperature},
  author = {A. Peshier and B. Kampfer and G. Soff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0106090},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages with figs (v2: minor grammatical changes)