Speaker
Dr
Dario Zappalà
(INFN Cezione di Catania)
Description
The Field Correlator Method provides an approximation of the full
Quantum Chromodynamics Equation of State (EoS) for quark matter,
which is parametrized in terms of the gluon condensate and the
large distance quark-antiquark potential. This EoS can be confronted
with the hadronic EoS to analyze the phase transition from nuclear to
quark matter, thus providing a simple framework to describe the interior
of a Neutron Star. In particular, it is discussed how recent observational
data on heavy neutron star masses put some physical constraints on the
two parameters of the model.
Author
Dr
Dario Zappalà
(INFN Cezione di Catania)
