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Nuclear
Physics Colloquium
Venue: Physics Building, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, Seminar
Room PHYS 2.116
Time: Friday, June 10, 10:00 am (s.t.)
Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
Mass-radius relation for hybrid stars
Mark Alford (Washington University
St. Louis)
At high
pressure, nuclear matter will undergo a transition to quark matter, so
sufficiently heavy neutron stars may really be "hybrid stars" with quark
matter cores. I will discuss the
"Constant Sound Speed" (CSS) parameterization of the quark matter EoS,
and show how it provides a generic way of understanding the topology of
the mass-radius relation, as well as more specific features like the
maximum mass and typical radius.
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