NEUTRON MATTER – QUARK MATTER PHASE TRANSITION AND QUARK STAR

Abstract

We consider the neutron matter and quark matter phase transition along with possible existence of hybrid quark stars. The equation of state for neutron matter is obtained using a nonperturbative method with pion dressing of the neutron matter and an analysis similar to that of symmetric nuclear matter. The quark matter sector is treated perturbatively in the small distance domain. For bag constant B1/4=148 MeV , a first order phase transition is seen. In the context of neutron quark hybrid stars, Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations are solved using the equations of state for quark matter and for neutron matter with a phase transition as noted earlier. Stable solutions for such stars are obtained with the Chandrasekhar limit as 1.58 Mʘ and radius around 10 km. The bulk of the star is quark matter with a thin crust of neutron matter of less than a kilometer.