Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-11-12
Nucl.Phys. A616 (1997) 659-679
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
16 pages, LaTeX, 14 eps-figures included. To be published in Nuclear Physics A
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9474(97)00014-6
We investigate the properties of strange quark matter at zero temperature including medium effects. The quarks are considered as quasiparticles which acquire an effective mass generated by the interaction with the other quarks of the dense system. The effective quark masses are derived from the zero momentum limit of the dispersion relations following from an effective quark propagator obtained from resumming one-loop self energy diagrams in the hard dense loop approximation. This leads to a thermodynamic selfconsistent description of strange quark matter as an ideal Fermi gas of quasiparticles. Within this approach we find that medium effects reduce the overall binding energy with respect to $^{56}Fe$ of strange quark matter. For realistic values of the strong coupling constant strange quark matter is not absolutely stable. The application to pure strange quark matter stars shows that medium effects have, nevertheless, no impact on the mass-radius relation of the stars. However, a phase transition to hadronic matter at the surface of the stars becomes more likely.
Greiner Carsten
Schertler Klaus
Thoma Markus H.
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