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The inner regions of the most massive compact stellar objects might be occupied by a phase of quarks. Since the observations of the massive pulsars PSR J1614-2230 and of PSR J0348+0432 with about two solar masses, the equations of state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Andreas Zacchi , Matthias Hanauske , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

We explore the possibility of phase transitions between different quark matter phases occurring within quark stars, giving rise to the hybrid quark stars (HybQSs). First, we obtain the generic phase diagram of possible mass-radius relation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Zongcan Yang , Tianxiong Zeng , Yan Yan , Wen-Li Yuan , Chen Zhang , Enping Zhou

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

At the ultra-high densities existing in the core of neutron stars, it is expected that a phase transition from baryonic to deconfined quark matter may occur. Such a phase transition would affect the underlying equation of state (EoS) as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Swarnim Shirke , Suprovo Ghosh , Debarati Chatterjee

Recent astrophysical mass inferences of compact stars HESS J1731-347 and PSR J0952-0607, with extremely small and large masses respectively, as well as the measurement of the neutron skin of Ca in the CREX experiment challenge and constrain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Jia Jie Li , Armen Sedrakian , Mark Alford

We develop our previous study of the transition to deconfined quark phase in neutron stars, including the interaction in the quark equation of state to the leading order in the perturbative expansion within the confinement density-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Li , W. Zuo , G. -X. Peng

The observations of PSR J0952-0607 and the second object in GW190814 event indicate the possible existence of supermassive neutron stars. In this work, by using the Constant-Sound-Speed (CSS) parametrization to describe the equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Hongyi Sun , Dehua Wen

We perform an extensive study of equation of state (EoS) models featuring a phase transition from hadronic to deconfined quark matter in neutron star merger simulations. We employ three different hadronic EoSs, a constant speed of sound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Sebastian Blacker , Andreas Bauswein

The transition to quark matter can take place in neutron stars. The structure of a hybrid star, containing a core made of quark matter is discussed. The maximum mass of the non-rotating hybrid star turns out to be 1.6 M_s. Possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alessandro Drago

We investigate the possible scenario of deconfinement of hyperon rich hadronic matter to quark matter at high densities and the resulting hybrid star (HS) properties are analyzed. In the relativistic mean-field framework, we construct the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-14 Debashree Sen , T. K. Jha

In this paper, we use the equation of state based on a modification of 2+1 flavors Nambu-Jona- Lasinio (NJL) model to study the quark matter of hybrid stars. For comparison, we utilize five EOSs of the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-22 Cheng-Ming Li , Jin-Li Zhang , Yan Yan , Yong-Feng Huang , Hong-Shi Zong

We investigate binary neutron star (BNS) mergers using general-relativistic numerical simulations with hadronic and hybrid equations of state (EOSs), incorporating the latest observations and theoretical constraints. We address two viable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Sudipta Hensh , Yong-Jia Huang , Toru Kojo , Luca Baiotti , Kentaro Takami , Shigehiro Nagataki , Hajime Sotani

This study investigates the radial oscillations of hybrid neutron stars, characterized by a composition of hadronic external layers and a quark matter core. Utilizing a density-dependent relativistic mean-field model that incorporates…

We discuss the properties of the extended three-flavor quark-meson diquark (EQMD) model as a renormalizable low-energy effective model for QCD. The effective degrees of freedom are quarks, scalar- and pseudoscalar mesons, diquarks, vector-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Jens O. Andersen , Mathias P. Nødtvedt

We compute the mass, radius and tidal deformability of stars containing phase transitions from hadronic to quark phase(s). These quantities are computed for three types of hadronic envelopes: purely nuclear, hyperonic, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-23 Jia Jie Li , Armen Sedrakian , Mark Alford

The possible existence of hybrid stars is studied using several multi-quark interaction channels. The hadronic phase consists of an equation of state (EoS) with presently accepted nuclear matter properties and the quark model is constrained…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Márcio Ferreira , Renan Câmara Pereira , Constança Providência

Twin stars are predicted to exist in nature if the hadron-to-quark phase transition is strong enough to form a new branch of hybrid stars, separated from the branch of neutron stars. We adopt an agnostic approach, using transition energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Shamim Haque , Atharva Shinde , Asim Kumar Saha , Tuhin Malik , Ritam Mallick

This article studies the maximum mass limit of the quark star formed after the shock-induced phase transition of a cold neutron star. By employing hadronic and quark equation of state that satisfies the current mass bound, we use combustion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Ritam Mallick , Shailendra Singh , Rana Nandi

The composition of the core of neutron stars (NS) is still under debate. One possibility is that because of the high densities reached in their cores, matter could be deconfined into quark matter. We investigate the existence of hybrid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Milena Albino , Tuhin Malik , Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

We study the phase transition from dense baryonic matter to dense quark matter within the large-$N_{c}$ limit. By using simple constant speed of sound equations of state for the two phases, we derive the scaling with $N_{c}$ of the critical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Francesco Giacosa , Giuseppe Pagliara