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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

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

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

The structure of a magnetized quark-hybrid stars (QHS) is modeled using a standard relativistic mean-field equation of state (EoS) for the description of hadronic matter. For quark matter we consider a bag model EoS which is modified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Orsaria , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval , H. Vucetich , F. Weber

Understanding the equation of state (EOS) of cold nuclear matter, namely, the relation between the pressure and energy density, is a central goal of nuclear physics that cuts across a variety of disciplines. Indeed, the limits of nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-06-12 J. Piekarewicz

The recent detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron star events has opened a new window on the many unknown aspects of their internal dynamics. A key role in this context is played by the transition from baryon to quark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-08 Abha Rajan , Tyler Gorda , Simonetta Liuti , Kent Yagi

We perform a physics-informed Bayesian analyses of the equation of state of hybrid neutron stars that incorporates color-flavor-locked quark matter modeled by a three-flavor non-local Nambu-Jona-Lasinio framework with vector repulsion and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Alexander Ayriyan , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , David Blaschke

The hadron-quark phase transition in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) has the potential to trigger explosions in otherwise nonexploding models. However, those hybrid supernova equations of state (EOS) shown to trigger an explosion do not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Oliver Heinimann , Matthias Hempel , Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

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

The potential hadron-to-quark phase transition in neutron stars has not been fully understood as the property of cold, dense, and strongly interacting matter cannot be theoretically described by the first-principle perturbative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Ronghao Li , Sophia Han , Zidu Lin , Lingxiao Wang , Kai Zhou , Shuzhe Shi

On the basis of the percolation picture from the hadronic phase with hyperons to the quark phase with strangeness, we construct a new equation of state (EOS) with the pressure interpolated as a function of the baryon density. The maximum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Kota Masuda , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tatsuyuki Takatsuka

Determining the phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and its Equation of State (EOS) at densities and temperatures realized inside neutron stars and their mergers is a long-standing open problem. The holographic V-QCD framework…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 Tuna Demircik , Christian Ecker , Matti Järvinen , Luciano Rezzolla , Samuel Tootle , Konrad Topolski

We perform a Bayesian inference of the dense-matter equation of state (EOS) within a unified framework that incorporates hadronic matter, quark matter, and a smooth hadron-to-quark crossover. The EOS is constrained using physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

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

Quark mass dependence of the equation of state (EOS) for nucleonic matter is investigated, on the basis of the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock method with the nucleon-nucleon interaction extracted from lattice QCD simulations. We observe saturation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-09-17 Takashi Inoue , Sinya Aoki , Takumi Doi , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Yoichi Ikeda , Noriyoshi Ishii , Keiko Murano , Hidekatsu Nemura , Kenji Sasaki

Neutron stars are compact objects of large interest in the nuclear astrophysics community. The extreme conditions present in such systems impose big challenges to our current microscopic models of nuclear structure. Equation of states (EoS)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-01 Ronaldo V. Lobato , Emanuel V. Chimanski , Carlos A. Bertulani

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

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

We study a family of equations of state for hybrid neutron star matter. The hybrid EOS are obtained by a Maxwell construction of the first-order phase transition between a hadronic phase described by the relativistic density-functional EOS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-02 G. A. Contrera , D. Blaschke , J. P. Carlomagno , A. G. Grunfeld , S. Liebing

We study the star matter properties for Hybrid equation of state (EoS) by varying the bag constant. We use the Effective-Field-Theory motivated Relativistic Mean-Field model (E-RMF) for hadron phase with recently reported FSUGarnet, G3 and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-19 I. A. Rather , A. Kumar , H. C. Das , M. Imran , A. A. Usmani , S. K. Patra