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The fundamental strong interaction determines the nature of pulsar-like compact stars which are essentially in the form of bulk strong matter. From an observational point of view, it is proposed that bulk strong matter could be composed of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Xiaoyu Lai , Enping Zhou , Renxin Xu

Pulsar-like objects are extremely compact, with an average density that exceeds nuclear saturation density, where the fundamental strong interaction plays an essential role, particularly in the low-energy regime. The internal structures and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Chengjun Xia , Xiaoyu Lai , Renxin Xu

The strong interactions at low energy scales determine the state of the supranuclear matter in the pulsar-like compact objects. It is proposed that the bulk strong matter could be composed of strangeons, which are quark clusters with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-25 Yong Gao , Xiao-Yu Lai , Lijing Shao , Ren-Xin Xu

The nature of pulsar-like compact stars is essentially a central question of the fundamental strong interaction (explained in quantum chromo-dynamics) at low energy scale, the solution of which still remains a challenge though tremendous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-01 Xiaoyu Lai , Renxin Xu

We investigate the properties of stars participating in double compact star merger events considering interacting model of stable strange quark matter. We model the matter making it compatible with the recent astrophysical observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-17 Anil Kumar , Vivek Baruah Thapa , Monika Sinha

Strange quark stars with a crust and strange dwarfs consisting of a compact strange quark core and an extended crust are investigated in terms of a bag model. The crust, which consists of atomic nuclei and degenerate electrons, has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. L. Vartanyan , A. K. Grigoryan , T. R. Sargsyan

This paper investigates the properties of strongly coupled matter at high baryon densities (\(\rho_B\)) in quark stars (QSs). The QS model is based on the density-dependent quark mass (DDQM) framework, modified (MDDQM) by enhancing the…

The fact that strange sea quarks are abundant in the nucleons, but with zero net strangeness, is of great importance for understanding the nature of matter condensed by the strong interaction, particularly in the context of the ``gigantic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Haoyang Qi , Renxin Xu

Particles with strangeness content are predicted to populate dense matter, modifying the equation of state of matter inside neutron stars as well as their structure and evolution. In this work, we show how the modeling of strangeness…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 R. O. Gomes , Prasanta Char , S. Schramm

In this paper, we construct a viable strange star model in the framework of the equation of state, $p_r=\frac{1}{3}(\rho-4B)$, proposed in the MIT bag model, where $B$ is termed as the bag constant. Considering extreme Wood-Saxon-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Sourav Biswas , Debadri Bhattacharjee , Pradip Kumar Chattopadhyay , Nawal H. Siddig , Euaggelos E. Zotos , Laila Abdulaziz Al-Essa

The observations of compact star inspirals from LIGO/Virgo combined with mass and radius measurements from NICER provide a valuable tool to study the highly uncertain equation of state (EOS) of dense matter at the densities characteristic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 Wen-Li Yuan , Chun Huang , Chen Zhang , Enping Zhou , Renxin Xu

We derive scaling laws that connect certain macroscopic observables of strange quark stars with key microscopic properties of self-bound quark matter, such as the energy per baryon at zero pressure and the strength of repulsive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-26 G. Lugones , A. G. Grunfeld

Strangeon stars, which are proposed to describe the nature of pulsar-like compact stars, have passed various observational tests. The maximum mass of a non-rotating strangeon star could be high, which implies that the remnants of binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Xi-Yan Yang , Xiao-Yu Lai , Wei-Wei Tan , Ren-Xin Xu

Strange quark matter in beta equilibrium at high densities is studied in a quark confinement model. Two equations of state are dynamically generated for the {\it same} set of model parameters used to describe the nucleon: one corresponds to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Malheiro , M. Fiolhais , A. R. Taurines

A quark model with running coupling and running strange quark mass, which is thermodynamically self-consistent at both high and lower densities, is presented and applied to study properties of strange quark matter and structure of compact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-29 J. F. Xu , G. X. Peng , F. Liu , D. F. Hou , L. W. Chen

It is generally agreed on that the tremendous densities reached in the centers of neutron stars provide a high-pressure environment in which several intriguing particles processes may compete with each other. These range from the generation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fridolin Weber , Alexander Ho , Rodrigo P. Negreiros , Philip Rosenfield

Stable micro-nucleus is 2-flavored (u and d), whereas stable macro-nucleus could be 3-flavored (u, d and s) if the light flavor symmetry restores there. Nucleons are the constituent of a nucleus, while strangeons are named as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Jiguang Lu , Renxin Xu

Strangeon is proposed to be the constituent of bulk strong matter, as an analogy of nucleon for an atomic nucleus. The nature of both nucleon matter (2 quark flavors, u and d) and strangeon matter (3 flavors, u, d and s) is controlled by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Renxin Xu

Strange stars ought to exist in the universe according to the strange quark matter hypothesis, which states that matter made of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks could be the true ground state of baryonic matter rather…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-20 Shu-Hua Yang , Chun-Mei Pi , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Fridolin Weber

The effect of model parameters in the equation of state for quark matter on the magnitude of the maximum mass of hybrid stars is examined. Quark matter is described in terms of the extended MIT bag model including corrections for one-gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-20 G. B. Alaverdyan , Yu. L. Vartanyan
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