Exploring phases of dense QCD with compact stars
arXiv:1612.06714 · doi:10.1051/epjconf/201716401009
Abstract
I review a number of recent developments in the physics of compact stars containing deconfined quark matter, including (a)~their cooling with possible phase transition from a fully gapped to a gapless phase of QCD at low temperatures and large isospin, (b)~the transport coefficients of the 2SC phase and the role played by the Aharonov-Bohm interactions between flux-tubes and unpaired fermions; (c)~rapidly rotating compact stars and spin-down and spin-up induced phase transition between hadronic and QCD matter as well as between different phases of QCD.
11 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2016), 6-14 July 2016, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece
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