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Neutron star interiors provide the opportunity to probe properties of cold dense matter in the QCD phase diagram. Utilizing models of dense matter in accord with nuclear systematics at nuclear densities, we investigate the compatibility of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-01 Sophia Han , M. A. A. Mamun , S. Lalit , C. Constantinou , M. Prakash

Phases of nuclear matter are crucial in the determination of physical properties of neutron stars~(NS). In the core of NS, the density and pressure become so large that the nuclear matter possibly undergoes phase transition into a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Sitthichai Pinkanjanarod , Piyabut Burikham

Recent observations of massive pulsars having masses of the order of two solar mass pose a new challenge for compact objects such as hybrid stars and neutron stars. Extensions of the bag model and the Nambu-Jona-Lasino model have been used…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-05 Salil Joshi , Sovan Sau , Soma Sanyal

We study the thermal evolution of neutron stars containing deconfined quark matter in their core. Such objects are generally referred to as quark-hybrid stars. The confined hadronic matter in their core is described in the framework of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-13 S. M. de Carvalho , R. Negreiros , M. Orsaria , G. A. Contrera , F. Weber , W. Spinella

Future high-precision X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars (NSs) are expected to constrain NS radii with uncertainties as small as $\sigma \simeq 0.1$~km. Such unprecedented precision offers a unique opportunity to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Bao-An Li , Xavier Grundler , Wen-Jie Xie , Nai-Bo Zhang

We reconsider the problem of the hyperon puzzle and its suggested solution by quark deconfinement within the two-phase approach to hybrid compact stars with recently obtained hadronic and quark matter equations of state. For the hadronic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 M. Shahrbaf , D. Blaschke , A. G. Grunfeld , H. R. Moshfegh

One of the most intriguing consequence of the extreme conditions inside neutron stars is the possibility of the natural existence of a deconfined strange quark matter phase in the high density interior of the star. The equation of state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Schertler , C. Greiner , M. H. Thoma

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

A two-phase description of the quark-nuclear matter hybrid equation of state that takes into account the effect of excluded volume in both the hadronic and the quark matter phases is introduced. The nuclear phase manifests a reduction of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-04 Mark Alexander Randolph Kaltenborn , Niels-Uwe Friedrich Bastian , David Bernhard Blaschke

We explore the possibility of a structured hadron-quark mixed phase forming in the interior of neutron stars. The quark-meson coupling (QMC) model, which explicitly incorporates the internal quark structure of the nucleon, is employed to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 Min Ju , Xuhao Wu , Fan Ji , Jinniu Hu , Hong Shen

We present a hybrid equation of state (EoS) for dense matter in which a nuclear matter phase is described within the Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) approach and a two-flavor quark matter phase is modelled according to a recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. B. Blaschke , D. Gomez Dumm , A. G. Grunfeld , T. Klahn , N. N. Scoccola

We discuss a hybrid equation of state (EoS) that fulfills constraints for mass-radius relationships and cooling of compact stars. The quark matter EoS is obtained from a Polyakov-loop Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model with color…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-27 D. B. Blaschke , F. Sandin , V. V. Skokov , S. Typel

We study the rotational properties of inverted hybrid stars (also termed cross stars), which have been recently proposed as a possible new class of compact stars characterized by an outer layer of quark matter and a core of hadrons, in an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Rodrigo Negreiros , Chen Zhang , Renxin Xu

In this paper we use the equation of state (EOS) of 2+1 flavors Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model to study the structure of compact stars. To avoid the ultraviolet divergence, we employ the proper-time regularization (PTR) with an ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Cheng-Ming Li , Jin-Li Zhang , Tong Zhao , Ya-Peng Zhao , Hong-Shi Zong

We study the nuclear matter properties like symmetry energy, slope parameter, curvature, skewness and incompressibility for Hybrid EoS. The hybrid EoS is constructed using the recently proposed Effective-Field-Theory motivated Relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-09 I. A. Rather , A. A. Usmani , S. K. Patra

Using the idea of a smooth crossover from the hadronic matter with hyperons to quark matter with strangeness, we show that the maximum mass of neutron stars with quark matter core can be larger than those without quark matter core. This is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Kota Masuda , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tatsuyuki Takatsuka

The possibility of discovering twin stars, two neutron stars (NSs) with the same mass but different radii, is usually studied in forward modelings by using a restricted number of NS matter equation of state (EOS) encapsulating a first-order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-10 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

Binary neutron star mergers and proto-neutron stars provide unique environments where dense matter is hot, lepton rich, and potentially undergoes a transition from hadronic to deconfined quark matter. We investigate the thermodynamics and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Andrea Sabatucci , Armen Sedrakian

We show that within a recently developed nonlocal chiral quark model the critical density for a phase transition to color superconducting quark matter under neutron star conditions can be low enough for these phases to occur in compact star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hovik Grigorian , David Blaschke , Dmitri Voskresensky

Aims: We present a new microscopic hadron-quark hybrid equation of state model for astrophysical applications, from which compact hybrid star configurations are constructed. These are composed of a quark core and a hadronic shell with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-29 Sanjin Benic , David Blaschke , David E. Alvarez-Castillo , Tobias Fischer , Stefan Typel