QC510 : Holographic equation of state for compact stars
Thesis > Central Library of Shahrood University > Physics > PhD > 2020
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Abstarct: Combining nuclear matter and quark matter in the same calculation on a microscopic
level is very challenging,besides the theoretical motivation just discussed, such
studies are highly desired in the context of neutron stars, where for instance mass
and radius, but also gravitational wave signals from neutron star mergers.
Therefore, various studies exist which combine two distinct models, one with nucleons
as degrees of freedom, one with quarks as degree of freedom. They are then
either glued together at a first-order phase transition, or a smooth interpolation is
introduced between the two phases. In either case, these approaches have no predictive
power for the nature and the location of the quark-hadron phase transition.
Our present approach, baxsed on the gauge/gravity duality, is at best a distorted
version of QCD, in some sense similar to an NJL model, which however does have a
well-defined concept of baryons in a chirally broken phase and of chirally symmetric
quark matter.
In this thesis,We study dense nuclear and quark matter within a single microscopic
approach, namely the holographic Sakai-Sugimoto model. Nuclear matter is described
via instantons in the bulk, and we show that instanton interactions are crucial
for a continuous connection of chirally broken and chirally symmetric phases.
The continuous path from nuclear to quark matter includes mextastable and unstable
stationary points of the potential, while the actual chiral phase transition remains
of first order, as in earlier approximations. We show that the model parameters
can be chosen to reproduce low-density properties of nuclear matter and observe a
non-monotonic behavior of the speed of sound as a function of the baryon chemical
potential, as suggested by constraints from QCD and astrophysics.
In addition to these results (nuclear and quark continuity As well as the speed of
sound ..) was checked for the case that the temperature has a value of non-zero.
Keywords:
#gauge/gravity duality #sakai sugimoto model #instantons #speed of sound #neutrinstar #QCD Keeping place: Central Library of Shahrood University
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