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The gravitational wave $\omega$ mode spectrum presents a unique window into the dense interior of neutron stars, probing physics inaccessible to electromagnetic observations. This work investigates the $\omega$ modes of compact stars…

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Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities in our Universe. This highly compressed matter may undergo a phase transition where nuclear matter melts into deconfined quark matter, liberating its constituent quarks and gluons.…

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We introduce a family of equations of state (EoS) for hybrid neutron star (NS) matter that is obtained by a two-zone parabolic interpolation between a soft hadronic EoS at low densities and a set of stiff quark matter EoS at high densities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-18 A. Ayriyan , D. Blaschke , A. G. Grunfeld , D. Alvarez-Castillo , H. Grigorian , V. Abgaryan

Hadron-quark phase transition in neutron star cores is achieved in the present work with the help of Maxwell construction. For the purpose we employ six different and well-known hadronic models for the pure hadronic phase. The quark phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-18 Debashree Sen , Naosad Alam , Gargi Chaudhuri

Neutron stars are the densest objects in the Universe, with $M \sim 1.4 M_{\odot}$ and $R \sim 12$ km, and the equation of state associated to their internal composition is still unknown. The extreme conditions to which matter is subjected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-11 M. C. Rodriguez , I. F. Ranea-Sandoval , M. Mariani , M. G. Orsaria , G. Malfatti , O. M. Guilera

We study the star matter properties for Hybrid equation of state (EoS) by varying the bag constant. We use the Effective-Field-Theory motivated Relativistic Mean-Field model (E-RMF) for hadron phase with recently reported FSUGarnet, G3 and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-19 I. A. Rather , A. Kumar , H. C. Das , M. Imran , A. A. Usmani , S. K. Patra

Bulk properties of cold and hot neutron stars (NSs) are studied on the basis of the hadron-quark crossover picture where a smooth transition from the hadronic phase to the quark phase takes place at finite baryon density. By using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Kota Masuda , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tatsuyuki Takatsuka

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), a practical alternative to cold dark matter, can exist in compact stars. Here, applying the FDM equation of state (EoS) constrained by CMB and large-scale structure data, we calculate the structure of relativistic…

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

In this contribution, we summarize our recent studies on the chiral invariant mass and the chiral condensates in neutron star matter. We construct a unified equations of state assuming the crossover phase transition from hadronic matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-11 Takuya Minamikawa , Toru Kojo , Masayasu Harada

We study the consequences of quark matter nucleation in cold hadronic matter employing three relativistic-mean-field (RMF) models to describe the hadronic phase and the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model for the quark one. We explore the effect…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Domenico Logoteta , Constança Providência , Isaac Vidaña

The gauge/gravity duality, combined with information from lattice QCD, nuclear theory, and perturbative QCD, can be used to constrain the equation of state of hot and dense QCD. I discuss an approach based on the holographic V-QCD model,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-17 Matti Jarvinen

Using a nonlocal extension of the SU(3) Nambu-Jona Lasinio model, which reproduces several of the key features of Quantum Chromodynamics, we show that mixed phases of deconfined quarks and confined hadrons (quark-hybrid matter) may exist in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Orsaria , H. Rodrigues , F. Weber , G. A. Contrera

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

The QCD phase diagram at densities relevant to neutron stars remains elusive, mainly due to the fermion-sign problem. At the same time, a plethora of possible phases has been predicted in models. Meanwhile $G_2$-QCD, for which the $SU(3)$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-03-26 Björn H. Wellegehausen , Axel Maas , Andreas Wipf , Lorenz von Smekal

The phase transition of hadronic to quark matter and the boundaries of the mixed hadron-quark coexistence phase are studied within the two Equation of State (EoS) model. The relativistic effective mean field approach with constant and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 B. Liu , M. Di Toro , G. Y. Shao , V. Greco , C. W. Shen , Z. H. Li

In this work, under the hypothesis that quark matter may not be strange (Holdom et al. 2018), we adopt a modification of the coupling constant of the four-quark scalar interaction $G\rightarrow G_1+G_2\langle\bar{\psi}\psi\rangle$ in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Cheng-Ming Li , He-Rui Zheng , Shu-Yu Zuo , Ya-Peng Zhao , Fei Wang , Yong-Feng Huang

As the interior density of a neutron star can become very high, it has been expected and discussed that quark matter may exist inside it. To describe the transition from hadron to quark phases (and vice versa), there are mainly two methods;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Takahide Kambe , Tetsuya Katayama , Koichi Saito

We compute models for the equation of state (EoS) of the matter in the cores of hybrid stars. Hadronic matter is treated in the non-linear relativistic mean-field approximation, and quark matter is modeled by three-flavor local and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-06 G. A. Contrera , M. Orsaria , I. F. Ranea-Sandoval , F. Weber

We use the available two different self-consistent formulations of quasiparticle models and extend their applications for the description of quark gluon plasma (QGP) at non-vanishing baryon chemical potentials. The thermodynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 P. K. Srivastava , S. K. Tiwari , C. P. Singh

We shall examine various types of equations of state for neutron stars, which determine the structure of neutron stars. In particular, the relation between mass and radius of neutron stars is of primary consideration. By combining an…

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