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Neutron Stars and very high $mu_{B}$ - 2
- Roy Lacey
Functional forms of the neutron star Equation of State (EoS) are required to extract the viable EoS band from neutron star mergers. Typically, one of three methods are used-- spectral functions, piecewise polytropes, or gaussian process. However, realistic nuclear EoS, containing deconfined quarks or hyperons, present nontrivial features in the speed of sound such as bumps, kinks and plateaus....
Generating an ensemble of equations of state that fulfill multimessenger constraints, we statistically determine the properties of dense matter found inside neutron stars (NSs). We calculate the speed of sound and trace anomaly and demonstrate that they are driven towards their conformal values at the center of maximally massive NSs. The local peak of the speed of sound is shown to be located...
Diquark gap calculated within the framework of a micro-physical (non-local Nambu-Jona Lasinio) model coupled to color and electric neutrality constraints and fit to a μ-dependent ansatz, is employed to an algebraic quark EoS (equation of state) [1]. The effect of this μ-dependent diquark gap is investigated against that of a constant (diquark) gap in the same (algebraic) EoS.
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