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At very large densities and/or temperatures a quark-hadron phase transition is expected to take place. Simulations of QCD on lattice at zero baryon density indicate that the transition occurs at $T_c \sim 150-170$ MeV. The calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Phatak , P. K. Sahu

Hybrid neutron stars, the compact objects consisting hadronic matter and strange quark matter, can be considered as the probes for the scalar tensor gravity. In this work, we explore the scalarization of hybrid neutron stars in the scalar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Fahimeh Rahimi , Zeinab Rezaei

We consider the transition from quark to hadronic matter which may result during the cooling/expansion of the quark-gluon plasma formed in energetic collisions of weakly isospin-asymmetric ions. This transition involves the energy density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-09-08 Francesca Sammarruca

High massive compact stars have been reported recently in the literature, providing strong constraints on the properties of the ultradense matter beyond the saturation nuclear density. In view of these results, the calculations of quark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-18 Hilario Rodrigues , Sergio B. Duarte , Jos Carlos T. de Oliveira

We study the hadron-quark phase transition in the interior of protoneutron stars. For the hadronic sector, we use a microscopic equation of state involving nucleons and hyperons derived within the finite-temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. E. Nicotra , M. Baldo , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

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…

We discuss how the dynamics of the evolving hot fireball of quark--gluon matter impacts phase transition between the deconfined and confined state of matter. The rapid expansion of the fireball of deconfined matter created in heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Johann Rafelski , Jean Letessier

In this work, we study the effects that interacting quark matter has on the stellar structure of strange and charm quark stars. Additionally, their stability against radial pulsations is analyzed using a first-order formalism for adiabatic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-09 José C. Jiménez

The stellar configurations of quark stars are studied using perturbative QCD (pQCD) for the equation of state (EoS). The neutron star structures with equation of state obtained from Brussels-Montreal extended Skyrme interaction are also…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-01 Joydev Lahiri , D. N. Basu

We describe an unambiguous gravitational-wave signature to identify the occurrence of a strong phase transition from hadronic matter to deconfined quark matter in neutron star mergers. Such a phase transition leads to a strong softening of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Andreas Bauswein , Sebastian Blacker

We investigate the phase transition from hadron to quark matter in the general case without the assumption of chemical equilibrium. The effects of net strangeness on charge and isospin fractions, chemical potentials, and temperature are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 K. Aryal , C. Constantinou , R. L. S. Farias , V. Dexheimer

The possible conditions for hadron-quark phase transition in hybrid star cores are investigated in the present work. For the hadronic matter part the effective chiral model is adopted. Exotic baryonic degrees like hyperons and the delta…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-15 Debashree Sen

The density in the core of neutron stars can reach values of about 5 to 10 times nuclear matter saturation density. It is, therefore, a natural assumption that hadrons may have dissolved into quarks under such conditions, forming a hybrid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Schramm , V. Dexheimer , R. Negreiros

In the contact interaction model, the quark propagator has only one solution, chiral symmetry breaking solution, at vanish temperature and density. Inspire by Y. Jiang and Z.-F. Cui, we introduce 2+1 flavors quark condensates feedback on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-15 Shu-Sheng Xu

A QCD-motivated dynamical-quasiparticle model with parameters adjusted to reproduce the lattice-QCD equation of state is extrapolated from region of high temperatures and moderate baryonic densities to the domain of high baryonic densities…

Recently it has been found that a certain class of hybrid star equations of state with a large latent heat (strong first order phase transition obtained by a Maxwell construction) between stiff hadronic hadronic and stiff quark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-10 D. E. Alvarez-Castillo , D. Blaschke

The mixed phase of quarks and hadrons which might exist in the dense matter encountered in the varying conditions of temperature and trapped neutrino fraction in proto-neutron stars is studied. The extent that the mixed phase depends upon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Steiner , M. Prakash , J. M. Lattimer

We investigate structures of hybrid stars, which feature quark core surrounded by a hadronic matter mantle, with super-strong toroidal magnetic fields in full general relativity. Modeling the equation of state (EOS) with a first order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Nobutoshi Yasutake , Kenta Kiuchi , Kei Kotake

(Abridged) Neutron stars (NSs), the densest known objects composed of matter, provide a unique laboratory to probe whether strange quark matter is the true ground state of matter. We investigate the parameter space of the equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 João V. Zastrow , Jonas P. Pereira , Rafael C. R. de Lima , Jorge E. Horvath

A quark-cluster state, rather than the color-super-conductivity state, may appear in matter with low-temperature but high density, since the phase transition of chiral symmetry broken and that of color-confinement could not occur…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Weiwei Zhu , Renxin Xu