The hadron-quark phase transition in neutron stars
arXiv:nucl-th/0410040 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.12.064
Abstract
We study the hadron-quark phase transition in the interior of neutron stars (NS). For the hadronic sector, we use a microscopic equation of state (EOS) involving nucleons and hyperons derived within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach. For the quark sector, we employ the MIT bag model, as well as the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) and the Color Dielectric (CD) models, and find that the NS maximum masses lie in the interval between 1.5 and 1.8 solar masses.
Talk given at the 18th International Nuclear Physics Divisional Conference of the EPS, Prague, 23-29 August, 2004. To be published in Nuclear Physics A. 4 pages, 1 eps figure