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The Equation of State for Cold and Dense Strongly Interacting Matter

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

Abstract

We discuss recent results for the equation of state for cold and dense strongly interacting matter. We consider the extreme cases of very high densities, where weak-coupling approaches may in principle give reasonable results, and very low densities, where we use the framework of heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory. We also speculate on the nature of the chiral transition and present possible astrophysical implications.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0301062,
  title  = {The Equation of State for Cold and Dense Strongly Interacting Matter},
  author = {E. S. Fraga and Y. Hatta and R. D. Pisarski and J. Schaffner-Bielich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0301062},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical Physics (TH-2002); v2: minor changes, references added