Published February 15, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Deconfinement Phase Transition Including Perturbative QCD Corrections in (Proto)neutron Star Matter

  • 1. Department of Technical Physics and MOE Laboratory of Heavy Ion Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
  • 2. Center of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Accelerator, Lanzhou 730000 (China)

Description

Deconfinement phase transition and neutrino trapping in (proto)neutron star matter are investigated in a chiral hadronic model (also referred to as the FST model) for the hadronic phase (HP) and in the color-flavor-locked (CFL) quark model for the deconfined quark phase. We include a perturbative QCD correction parameter αs in the CFL quark matter equation of states. It is shown that the CFL quark core with K0 condensation forms in neutron star matter with the large value of αs. If the small value of αs is taken, hyperons suppress the CFL quark phase and the HP is dominant in the high-density region of (proto)neutron star matter. Neutrino trapping makes the fraction of the CFL quark matter decrease compared with those without neutrino trapping. Moreover, increasing the QCD correction parameter αs or decreasing the bag constant B and the strange quark mass ms can make the fraction of the CFL quark matter increase, simultaneously, the fraction of neutrino in protoneutron star matter increases, too. The maximum masses and the corresponding radii of (proto)neutron stars are not sensitive to the QCD correction parameter αs.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0253-6102/49/2/43

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Journal Title
Communications in Theoretical Physics
Journal Volume
49
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 461-466
ISSN
0253-6102