May 3 – 5, 2023
Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Investigating Sexaquark as a candidate for dark matter constraining the parameters of nlNJL model when Bayesian analysis of neutron stars mass and radius is performed.

May 4, 2023, 4:35 PM
15m
Centro de Congressos (Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon)

Centro de Congressos

Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

Av. Rovisco Pais 1 1049-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL

Speaker

Mahboubeh Shahrbaf

Description

A stable sexaquark state with quark content (uuddss) is investigated as a candidate for dark matter in the core of neutron star. We find that there is a “sexaquark dilemma”
(analogous to the hyperon dilemma) for which the dissociation of the sexaquark in quark matter is
a viable solution fulfilling all present constraints from multi-messenger astronomy. Furthermore, the mass of sexaquark is constrained using a gereneralized relativistic mean-field approach called DD2Y for discribing hadronic matter in the core of neutron star. The parameters of the covariant nonlocal Nambu–Jona-Lasinio
(nlNJL) model which describes the color superconducting quark matter phase, are provided by a systematic Bayesian analysis of hybrid neutron star equations of state (EoS). We find the squared speed of sound at high densities to be about 0.5 for the optimized parameters.

Primary author

Mahboubeh Shahrbaf

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