Equation of State and Applications to AstrophysicsNo Access

ON THE EQUATION OF STATE IN EFFECTIVE QUARK THEORIES

W. BENTZ

Dept. of Physics, School of Science, Tokai University, 1117 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan

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S. LAWLEY

Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

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A. W. THOMAS

Jefferson Lab, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606, USA

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732308029629Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We discuss the saturation mechanism for the nuclear matter equation of state in a chiral effective quark theory. The importance of the scalar polarizability of the nucleon is emphasized. The phase transition to color superconducting quark matter is also discussed.

Supported by: Grant in Aid for Scientific Research of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, project no. C-19540306; and Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, contract no. DE-AC05-84ER40150, under which JSA operates Jefferson Lab.

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PACS: 12.39.Fe, 12.39.Ki, 21.65.+f, 97.60.Jd