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Hybrid stars that masquerade as neutron stars
Mark Alford, Matt Braby, Mark Paris +1
We show that a hybrid (nuclear + quark matter) star can have a mass-radius relationship very similar to that predicted for a star made of purely nucleonic matter. We show this for…
A Hot Water Bottle for Aging Neutron Stars
Mark Alford, Pooja Jotwani, Chris Kouvaris +2
The gapless color-flavor locked (gCFL) phase is the second-densest phase of matter in the QCD phase diagram, making it a plausible constituent of the core of neutron stars. We show…
Evaluating the Gapless Color-Flavor Locked Phase
Mark Alford, Chris Kouvaris, Krishna Rajagopal
In neutral cold quark matter that is sufficiently dense that the strange quark mass M_s is unimportant, all nine quarks (three colors; three flavors) pair in a color-flavor locked…
Gapless CFL and its competition with mixed phases
Mark Alford, Chris Kouvaris, Krishna Rajagopal
We recently argued that as the density of quark matter decreases, there is a continuous transition from the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase to a gapless "gCFL" phase. The reason is…
Illuminating interfaces between phases of a U(1) x U(1) gauge theory
Mark Alford, Gerald Good
We study reflection and transmission of light at the interface between different phases of a U(1) x U(1) gauge theory. On each side of the interface, one can choose a basis so that…