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Elementary particles such as quarks and gluons are expected to be fundamental degrees of freedom at ultra high temperatures or densities, while natural phenomena in our daily lives are described in terms of hadronic degrees of freedom.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-05 Reiko Harada , Kipp Cannon , Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku

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

An increase in the central density of a neutron star may trigger a phase transition from hadronic matter to deconfined quark matter in the core, causing it to collapse to a more compact hybrid-star configuration. We present a study of this,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 E. B. Abdikamalov , H. Dimmelmeier , L. Rezzolla , J. C. Miller

We use numerical relativity simulations of binary neutron star mergers to show that high density deconfinement phase transitions (PTs) to quark matter can be probed using multimodal postmerger gravitational wave (GW) spectroscopy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Pedro Luis Espino , Aviral Prakash , David Radice , Domenico Logoteta

The recent discovery of the two-solar mass neutron stars $J1614-2230~(1.97 \pm 0.04 M_{\odot})$ and $J0348+0432~(2.01 \pm 0.04 M_{\odot})$ allows to consider the possible existence of deconfined quarks in the cores of neutron stars. Based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-31 Gustavo A. Contrera , William Spinella , Milva Orsaria , Fridolin Weber

The investigation of the phase state of dense matter is hindered by complications of first-principle nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics. By performing the first consistent general-relativistic calculations of tidal-excited g-mode of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-19 Zhiqiang Miao , Enping Zhou , Ang Li

We study rotating hybrid stars, with a particular emphasis on the effect of a deconfinement phase transition on their properties at high spin. Our analysis is based on a hybrid equation of state (EoS) with a phase transition from…

Compact stars containing quark matter may masquerade as neutron stars in the range of measured mass and radius, making it difficult to draw firm conclusions on the phase of matter inside the star. The sensitivity of core $g$-mode…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-29 Wei Wei , Megan Barry , Thomas Klähn , Prashanth Jaikumar

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 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

We model neutron stars as magnetised hybrid stars with an abrupt hadron-quark phase transition in their cores, taking into account current constraints from nuclear experiments and multi-messenger observations. We include magnetic field…

The aim of this work is the study of hybrid stars interiors from the equations of state describing the matter composing them. We used modern hadronic equations of state to describe the matter in the outer core of these stars. The quark…

In agreement with the constantly increasing gravitational wave events, new aspects of the internal structure of compact stars can be considered. A scenario in which a first order transition takes place inside these stars is of particular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-07 Lazaros Tsaloukidis , P. S. Koliogiannis , A. Kanakis-Pegios , Ch. C. Moustakidis

Gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals contain information about the equation of state of supranuclear matter. In the absence of definitive experimental evidence that determines the correct equation of state, a number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-05 Katerina Chatziioannou , Kent Yagi , Antoine Klein , Neil Cornish , Nicolas Yunes

We study quark-hadron hybrid stars with sharp phase transitions assuming that phase conversions at the interface are slow. Hadronic matter is described by a set of equations of state (EoS) based on the chiral effective field theory and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-13 Alessandro Parisi , C. Vásquez Flores , C. Henrique Lenzi , Chian-Shu Chen , Germán Lugones

The properties of hadron-quark hybrid stars are studied when the quark phase is described in terms of a local SU(3) Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model taking into account the contribution of the vector and axial-vector interaction between the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-09 G. B. Alaverdyan

Binary neutron-star mergers offer crucial insights into the matter properties of neutron stars. We present the possible imprints in the gravitational wave signal from the nature of phase transition from such events. Our study employs a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Sagnik Chatterjee , Shamim Haque , Kamal Krishna Nath , Rana Nandi , Ritam Mallick

We investigate the possible sequels, for the hybrid compact stars consisting of nucleons, hyperons and three flavour color-flavor-locked quarks phase under global neutrality and chemical equilibrium conditions. The hadron equations of state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Suman Thakur , Shashi K Dhiman

We investigate the effects of the sharpness of the phase transition between hadronic matter and quark matter on various properties of neutron stars. We construct hybrid equations of state by combining a hadronic model with a quark model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-03 M. B. Albino , R. Fariello , G. Lugones , F. S. Navarra

The most recent detections of LIGO/Virgo and NICER have placed strong constraints on neutron stars' properties. In this work, we study neutron stars modeling them as hybrid stars, compact objects with a quark matter core surrounded by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Mauro Mariani , Daniela Curin , Milva G. Orsaria , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval