Published July 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Compact stars with a quark core within the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model

  • 1. Centro de Fisica Computacional, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, Coimbra, P-3004-516 (Portugal)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Campo Montenegro, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, 12228-900 (Brazil)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Indiana University, Swain Hall West 117, 727 East Third Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (United States)

Description

An ultraviolet cutoff dependent on the chemical potential as proposed by Casalbuoni et al. is used in the SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The model is applied to the description of stellar quark matter and compact stars. It is shown that with a new cutoff parametrization it is possible to obtain stable hybrid stars with a quark core. A larger cutoff at finite densities leads to a partial chiral symmetry restoration of quark s at lower densities. A direct consequence is the onset of the s quark in stellar matter at lower densities and a softening of the equation of state.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 015809-015809.9
ISSN
0556-2813
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