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The existence of quark matter inside the heaviest neutron stars has been the topic of numerous recent studies, many of them suggesting that a phase transition to strongly interacting conformal matter inside neutron stars is feasible. Here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-04 János Takátsy , Péter Kovács , György Wolf , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

In this work, we investigate the impact of the possibility of a small, subsolar mass compact star, such as the recently reported central compact object of HESS J1731-347, on the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars. We have used a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Prasanta Char , Bhaskar Biswas

An equation of state (EoS) for symmetric nuclear matter is constructed using the density dependent M3Y effective interaction and extended for isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. Theoretically obtained values of symmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 D. N. Basu , Partha Roy Chowdhury , Abhishek Mishra

The structure and stability of quark stars (QSs) made of interacting quark matter are discussed in this study, taking color superconductivity and perturbative QCD corrections into account. By combining this EoS with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-12 Takol Tangphati , İzzet Sakallı , Ayan Banerjee , Anirudh Pradhan

We consider the influence of potential quark matter existing at high densities in neutron star interiors on gravitational waves (GW) emitted in a binary neutron star merger event. Two types of equations of state (EoS) at zero temperatures…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Oechslin , K. Uryū , G. Poghosyan , F. K. Thielemann

We investigate systematically the possible deconfinement phase transition from nuclear matter to quark matter in compact stars. The properties of nuclear matter are fixed by expanding its binding energy to the order of $\rho^3$, while those…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-24 Hao-Miao Jin , Cheng-Jun Xia , Ting-Ting Sun , Guang-Xiong Peng

We study the nucleation of quark matter drops at the center of cold deleptonized neutron stars. This is relevant in the determination of the critical mass $M_{cr}$ of hadronic stars above which it is possible a transition to a quark star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Bombaci , G. Lugones , I. Vidana

The properties of hybrid stars formed by hadronic and quark matter in $\beta$-equilibrium are described by appropriate equations of state (EoS) in the framework of the quark meson coupling (QMC) model. In the present work we include the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 P. K. Panda , D. P. Menezes , C. Providência

We investigate a simple holographic model for cold and dense deconfined QCD matter consisting of three quark flavors. Varying the single free parameter of the model and utilizing a Chiral Effective Theory equation of state (EoS) for nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Eemeli Annala , Christian Ecker , Carlos Hoyos , Niko Jokela , David Rodríguez Fernández , Aleksi Vuorinen

We investigate the properties of hybrid star and the mixed phase core to explore the radius ratio of the mixed phase in hybrid star. In the context of observed massive neutron stars (NSs), we examine the internal structure, phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Xuhao Wu , Peng-Cheng Chu , Min Ju , He Liu

In the present work we have achieved phase transition from $\beta$ stable hadronic matter to color-flavor locked (CFL) quark matter with Maxwell construction. The hybrid equation of state (EoS), obtained for different values of bag pressure…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-13 Debashree Sen , Gargi Chaudhuri

We present a first step in developing a benchmark equation-of-state (EoS) model for multi-messenger astronomy that unifies the thermodynamics of quark and hadronic degrees of freedom. A Lagrangian approach to the thermodynamic potential of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Michał Marczenko , David Blaschke , Krzysztof Redlich , Chihiro Sasaki

We construct an equation of state (EOS) for neutron stars by interpolating hadronic EOS at low density and quark EOS at high density. A hadronic model based on the parity doublet structure is used for hadronic matter and a quark model of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Takuya Minamikawa , Toru Kojo , Masayasu Harada

The quark gluon plasma (QGP) at zero temperature and high baryon number is a system that may be present inside compact stars. It is quite possible that this cold QGP shares some relevant features with the hot QGP observed in heavy ion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 B. Franzon , D. A. Fogaça , F. S. Navarra , J. E. Horvath

The occurrence of quark matter at the center of neutron stars is still in debate. This study defines some semi-empirical parameters that quantify the occurrence and the amount of quark matter at star interiors. These parameters show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-13 Ritam Mallick , Debojoti Kuzur , Rana Nandi

(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

The recent detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron star events has opened a new window on the many unknown aspects of their internal dynamics. A key role in this context is played by the transition from baryon to quark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-08 Abha Rajan , Tyler Gorda , Simonetta Liuti , Kent Yagi

We construct a set of equations of state (EoS) of dense and hot matter with a 1st order phase transition from a hadronic system to a deconfined quark matter state. In this two-phase approach, hadrons are described using the relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Mateusz Cierniak , Tobias Fischer , Niels-Uwe Bastian , Thomas Klaehn , Marc Salinas

Some recent pulsar observations cannot naturally fit into the conventional picture of neutron stars: the compact objects associated with HESS J1731-347 and XTE J1814-338 have too small radii in the low-mass regime, while the secondary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Chen Zhang , Juan M. Z. Pretel , Renxin Xu

The existence of stars with masses up to $2 M_{\odot}$ and the hints of the existence of stars with radii smaller than $\sim 11$ km seem to require, at the same time, a stiff and a soft hadronic equation of state at large densities. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-25 Giuseppe Pagliara , Alessandro Drago , Andrea Lavagno , Daniele Pigato