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The equation of state for quark matter is derived for a nonlocal, chiral quark model within the mean field approximation. Special emphasis is on the occurrence of a diquark condensate which signals a phase transition to color…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Grigorian , D. Blaschke , D. N. Aguilera

In this work, we compare two powerful parameter estimation methods namely Bayesian inference and Neural Network based learning to study the quark matter equation of state with constant speed of sound parametrization and the structure of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-16 Silvia Traversi , Prasanta Char

A deep exploration of the parameter space that relates the interacting equation of state with the bag constant B, and the interaction parameter a, is fundamental for the construction of diverse models of quark stars. In particular, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-26 E. A. Becerra-Vergara , Sindy Mojica , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio

We study cold strange quark stars employing an enhanced version of the quark-mass density-dependent model which incorporates excluded volume effects to address non-perturbative QCD repulsive interactions. We provide a comparative analysis…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-29 G. Lugones , A. G. Grunfeld

We investigate theoretical signatures of first-order QCD phase transitions in high-density astrophysical systems through a framework combining lattice QCD, effective field theories, and multimessenger constraints. Hybrid equations of state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Debarshi Mukherjee

We discuss the "constant speed of sound" (CSS) parametrization of the equation of state of high-density matter and its application to the field correlator method (FCM) model of quark matter. We show how observational constraints on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Mark G. Alford , G. F. Burgio , Sophia Han , Gabriele Taranto , Dario Zappalà

The recent measurement of a $1.97\pm 0.04$ solar-mass pulsar places a stringent lower bound on the maximum mass of compact stars and therefore challenges the existence of any agents that soften the equation of state of ultra-dense matter.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-21 Luca Bonanno , Armen Sedrakian

It is well known that the equation of state (EoS) of compact objects like neutron and quark stars is not determined despite there are several sophisticated models to describe it. From the electromagnetic observations, summarized in…

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

In this conference-proceedings contribution, we review recent advances in placing model-independent constraints on the properties of cold and dense QCD matter inside neutron stars. In addition to introducing new bounds for the Equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Eemeli Annala , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Joonas Nättilä , Aleksi Vuorinen

The phenomena of deconfinement of hadronic matter into quark matter at high density, relevant to hybrid star (HS) cores, is studied in the present work. The effective chiral model describes the pure hadronic phase while for the quark phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-13 Debashree Sen , Naosad Alam , Gargi Chaudhuri

The composition of the core of neutron stars (NS) is still under debate. One possibility is that because of the high densities reached in their cores, matter could be deconfined into quark matter. We investigate the existence of hybrid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Milena Albino , Tuhin Malik , Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

The nuclear matter equation of state is relatively well constrained at sub-saturation densities thanks to the knowledge from nuclear physics. However, studying its behavior at supra-saturation densities is a challenging task. Fortunately,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-17 Hoa Dinh Thi , Chiranjib Mondal , Francesca Gulminelli

[Background] Bayesian inference frameworks incorporating multi-messenger astrophysical constraints have recently been applied to covariant density functional (CDF) models to constrain their parameters. Among these, frameworks utilizing CDFs…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-23 Jia-Jie Li , Yu Tian , Armen Sedrakian

We explore the role of color superconductivity in quarkyonic matter under the conditions of color and electric neutrality at $\beta$- and strong equilibrium, as relevant for neutron stars. By explicitly incorporating the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Christoph Gärtlein , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Violetta Sagun , Ilídio Lopes

Multi-messenger astronomical observations of neutron stars, together with more precise calculations and constraints coming from dense matter microphysics, are generating tension with regard to equations of state models used to describe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-09 Mauro Mariani , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval

Recent measurement of mass of PSR J1614-2230 rules out most of existing models of equation of state (EOS) of dense matter with high-density softening due to hyperonization, based on the recent hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-31 J. L. Zdunik , P. Haensel

We present a physics-informed Bayesian analysis of equation of state constraints using observational data for masses, radii and tidal deformability of pulsars and a generic class of hybrid neutron star equation of state with color…

Understanding the dense matter equation of state at extreme conditions is an important open problem. Astrophysical observations of neutron stars promise to solve this, with NICER poised to make precision measurements of mass and radius for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 S. K. Greif , G. Raaijmakers , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk , A. L. Watts

The recent analysis on the central compact object in the HESS J1731-347 remnant suggests interestingly small values for its mass and radius. Such an observation favors soft nuclear models that may be challenged by the observation of massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-05 P. Laskos-Patkos , P. S. Koliogiannis , Ch. C. Moustakidis