Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-04-26
Phys.Rev.D72:065021,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D (10 pages, 6 figures)
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.065021
We study the deconfinement transition of hadronic matter into quark matter in neutron star conditions in the light of color superconductivity. Deconfinement is considered to be a first order phase transition that conserves color and flavor. It gives a short-lived {($\tau \sim \tau_{weak}$)} transitory colorless-quark-phase that is {\it not} in $\beta$-equilibrium. We deduce the equations governing deconfinement when quark pairing is allowed and find the regions of the parameter space (pairing gap $\Delta$ versus bag constant $B$) where deconfinement is possible inside cold neutron stars. We show that for a wide region of ($B,\Delta$) a pairing pattern is reachable within a strong interaction timescale, and the resulting ``2SC-like'' phase is preferred energetically to the unpaired phase. We also show that although $\beta$-stable hybrid star configurations are known to be possible for a wide region of the ($B,\Delta$)-space, many of these configurations could not form in practice because deconfinement is forbidden, i.e. the here studied non-$\beta$-stable \emph{intermediate} state cannot be reached.
Bombaci Ignazio
Lugones German
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