High-density Skyrmion matter and Neutron Stars

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2007-08-25

arxiv.org/abs/0708.3436v2

Astrophys.J.678:360-368,2008

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

27 pages, 5 figures, AASTeX style; to be published in The Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/529510

We examine neutron star properties based on a model of dense matter composed of B=1 skyrmions immersed in a mesonic mean field background. The model realizes spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking non-linearly and incorporates scale-breaking of QCD through a dilaton VEV that also affects the mean fields. Quartic self-interactions among the vector mesons are introduced on grounds of naturalness in the corresponding effective field theory. Within a plausible range of the quartic couplings, the model generates neutron star masses and radii that are consistent with a preponderance of observational constraints, including recent ones that point to the existence of relatively massive neutron stars with mass M 1.7 Msun and radius R (12-14) km. If the existence of neutron stars with such dimensions is confirmed, matter at supra-nuclear density is stiffer than extrapolations of most microscopic models suggest.

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