Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Quark-hybrid matter in the cores of massive neutron stars. (arXiv:1212.4213v1 [astro-ph.SR])

Quark-hybrid matter in the cores of massive neutron stars. (arXiv:1212.4213v1 [astro-ph.SR]):
Using a nonlocal extension of the SU(3) Nambu-Jona Lasinio model, which
reproduces several of the key features of Quantum Chromodynamics, we show that
mixed phases of deconfined quarks and confined hadrons (quark-hybrid matter)
may exist in the cores of neutron stars as massive as around 2.1 M_Sun. The
radii of these objects are found to be in the canonical range of $\sim 12-13$
km. According to our study, the transition to pure quark matter does not occur
in stable neutron stars, but is shifted to neutron stars which are unstable
against radial oscillations. The implications of our study for the recently
discovered, massive neutron star PSR J1614-2230, whose gravitational mass is
$1.97 \pm 0.04 M_Sun$, are that this neutron star may contain an extended
region of quark-hybrid matter at it center, but no pure quark matter.

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