Possible Signatures of Quark-Hadron Phase Transitions inside Neutron Stars

Abstract

The spin-down power of an isolated neutron star can drive its central density increase and overall structural changes, and trigger a quark-hadron phase transition. A series of observational signatures may be seen as a result of the phase transition, including pulsar spin-down and glitch behaviors, Soft Gamma Repeaters or Gamma-Ray Bursts.

arXiv comment7 pages, in "From Particles to the Universe", Proceedings of the Fifteenth Lake Louise Winter Institute Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada 20 - 26 February 2000, ed. A. Astbury et al., World Scientific (Singapore, 2001)