https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10266-6
QNP 2006
Neutron stars as cosmic laboratories to explore hadronic matter at ultra-high densities
Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Fermi”, Università di Pisa, and INFN, Sezione di Pisa, largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy
* e-mail: bombaci@df.unipi.it
Received:
23
November
2006
Accepted:
30
November
2006
Published online:
19
March
2007
We examine the present status of the theoretical calculations for the internal structure of neutron stars, and the connection with the microscopic properties of ultradense hadronic matter. We discuss the possibility to have quark deconfinement phase transition in the core of neutron stars, and we explore some of its astrophysical implications as the quark-deconfinement nova model for gamma-ray bursts.
PACS: 97.60.Jd Neutron stars – / 26.60.+c Nuclear matter aspects of neutron stars – / 24.10.Cn Many-body theory – / 25.75.Nq Quark deconfinement, quark-gluon plasma production, and phase transitions –
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2007
