127 citations · 127 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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nucl-th2005★ 127 cited
The Strange Star Surface: A Crust with Nuggets
Prashanth Jaikumar, Sanjay Reddy, Andrew W. Steiner
We reexamine the surface composition of strange stars. Strange quark stars are hypothetical compact stars which could exist if strange quark matter was absolutely stable. It is wid…
hep-ph2003
A Hagedorn temperature in post-inflationary dynamics?
Prashanth Jaikumar, Anupam Mazumdar
We consider the possibility of regarding the maximum temperature $\tm$ of a plasma of inflaton decay products as a Hagedorn temperature connected with the transition from an inflat…
hep-ph2000
Periodic Theta Vacuum Model and the QCD Instanton Vacuum
Prashanth Jaikumar, Ismail Zahed
We formulate a toy model for the vacuum that embodies the n-point moments of the even and odd topological charge densities. The partition function is periodic only after r…