Hadron-quark crossover and massive hybrid stars

By Kota Masuda, T. Hatsuda, T. Takatsuka. 2012

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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 mass of neutron stars can exceed $2M_{\odot }$ if the following two conditions are satisfied: (i) the crossover from hadronic matter to quark matter takes place at around three times the normal nuclear matter density, and (ii) the quark matter is strongly interacting in the crossover region and has a stiff equation of state. This is in contrast to the conventional approach, assuming the first-order phase transition in which the EOS always becomes soft due to the presence of the quark matter at high density. Although the choice of the hadronic EOS does not affect the above conclusion for the maximum mass, the three-body force among nucleons and hyperons plays an essential role in the onset of hyperon mixing and the cooling of neutron stars.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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A new quark-hadron hybrid equation of state for astrophysics - I. High-mass twin compact stars (2014, background): “The major ingredient of compact star physics is the zero-temperature EoS in β-equilibrium (for recent works, cf. Steiner et al. 2013; Masuda et al. 2013; Orsaria et al. 2013; Alford et al. 2013; Hebeler et al. 2013; Inoue et al. 2013; Klähn et al. 2013; Fraga et al. 2013; Yasutake et al. 2014;…”