The influence of medium effects on the gross structure of hybrid stars

✍ Scribed by K. Schertler; C. Greiner; P.K. Sahu; M.H. Thoma

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 884 KB
• Volume: 637
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(98)00330-3

✦ Synopsis

We investigate the influence of medium effects on the structure of hybrid stars, i.e. neutron stars possessing a quark matter core. We found that medium effects in quark matter reduce the extent of a pure quark matter phase in the interior of a hybrid star significantly in favor of a mixed phase of quark and hadronic matter. Over a wide range of the strong coupling constantwhich parameterizes the influence of medium effects -quark matter is able to exist at least in a mixed phase in the interior of neutron stars. (~ 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.