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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

We study the importance of the thermal behavior of the hadron-quark phase transition in neutron star (NS) mergers. To this end, we devise a new scheme approximating thermal effects to supplement any cold, barotropic hybrid equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 Sebastian Blacker , Andreas Bauswein , Stefan Typel

Understanding the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars (NSs) is a fundamental challenge in astrophysics and nuclear physics. A first-order phase transition (FOPT) at high densities could lead to the formation of a quark core,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Zuhua Ji , Jiarui Chen

We describe charge-neutral neutron star matter in $\beta-$equilibrium using hybrid equations of state, where a first-order phase transition from hadronic to quark matter is realized. The hadronic matter is described in a model-independent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-21 Márcio Ferreira , Renan Câmara Pereira , Constança Providência

The nucleon-quark mixed matter is defined in the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock framework, in which quark densities are determined by equilibrium conditions between nucleon and quark chemical potentials, and nucleon-quark interactions play critical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-08 Y. Yamamoto , N. Yasutake , Th. A. Rijken

We analyse the hadron-quark phase transition in neutron stars by confronting the hadronic Equation of State (EoS) obtained according to the microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock many body theory, with the quark matter EoS derived within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 D. Zappala , G. F. Burgio , V. Greco , S. Plumari

In this work, we discuss the dense matter equation of state (EOS) for the extreme range of conditions encountered in neutron stars and their mergers. The calculation of the properties of such an EOS involves modeling different degrees of…

Current observations of neutron stars and measurements of gravitational waves only provide constraints on the zero temperature ($T=0$) equation of state (EoS) of dense matter. The detection of the post-merger gravitational-wave signal from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 Hosein Gholami , Marco Hofmann , Débora Mroczek , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

Whether or not deconfined quark phase exists in neutron star cores and represents the ground state of neutral matter at moderate densities are open questions. We use two realistic effective quark models, the three-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chang-Qun Ma , Chun-Yuan Gao

We present a hybrid equation of state (EoS) for dense matter that satisfies phenomenological constraints from modern compact star (CS) observations which indicate high maximum masses (M = 2 M_sun) and large radii (R> 12 km). The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Klahn , D. Blaschke , F. Sandin , C. Fuchs , A. Faessler , H. Grigorian , G. Ropke , J. Trumper

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

The aim of our work is to develop a unified equation of state (EoS) for nuclear and quark matter for a wide range in temperature, density and isospin so that it becomes applicable for heavy-ion collisions as well as for the astrophysics of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 N. -U. Bastian , D. Blaschke

The stable configurations of non-rotating and rotating hybrid stars composed of colour superconducting quark matter core are constructed using several equations of state (EOSs). We use a set of diverse EOSs for the nuclear matter which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-06 B. K. Agrawal

We propose a non-parametric approach to construct the statistical equation of state (EOS) continuously from the nuclear crust to the asymptotic-freedom regime. Driven by the observationally required stiffening to support two-solar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Yong-Jia Huang , Shao-Peng Tang , Yi-Zhong Fan

The microscopic composition and properties of matter at super-saturation densities have been the subject of intense investigation for decades. The scarcity of experimental and observational data has lead to the necessary reliance on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. R. Stone

The hadron--quark crossover equation of state (EOS) of neutron star (NS) matter is investigated by combining relativistic mean-field (RMF) hadronic models with the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model for quark matter. The vector and diquark…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Xuesong Geng , Kaixuan Huang , Hong Shen , Lei Li , Jinniu Hu

The structure and basic properties of dense nuclear matter still remain one of the open problems of Physics. In particular, the composition of the matter that composes neutron stars is under theoretical and experimental investigation. Among…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-22 K. Folias , Ch. C. Moustakidis

For the first time, a reliable estimation for the equations of state (EoS), bulk viscosity, and relaxation time, at temperatures ranging from a few MeV up to TeV or energy density up to $10^{16}~$GeV/fm$^3$. This genuine study covers both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-19 Abdel Nasser Tawfik

The concept of quarkyonic matter presents a promising alternative to the conventional models used to describe high-density matter and provides a more nuanced and detailed understanding of the properties of matter under extreme conditions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-19 Ankit Kumar , Debabrata Dey , Shamim Haque , Ritam Mallick , S. K. Patra

We show how observations of gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers over the next few years can be combined with insights from nuclear physics to obtain useful constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose , Sanjay Reddy , Dake Zhou , Arunava Mukherjee , Soumi De