Do current astronomical observations exclude the existence of nonstrange quark stars?

Tong Zhao, Wei Zheng, Fei Wang, Cheng-Ming Li, Yan Yan, Yong-Feng Huang, and Hong-Shi Zong
Phys. Rev. D 100, 043018 – Published 20 August 2019

Abstract

As is pointed out in a recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 222001 (2018)], quark matter may not be strange. Inspired by this argument, we use a new self-consistent mean field approximation method to study the equation of state of cold dense matter within the framework of the two-flavor NJL model. Then the mass-radius relationship of two-flavor pure quark stars is studied. In the new self-consistent mean field approximation method we introduced, there is a free parameter α, which reflects the weight of different interaction channels. In principle, α should be determined by experiments rather than the self-consistent mean field approximation itself. In this paper, thus, the influence of the variation of α on the critical chemical potential of chiral phase transition and the stiffness of the equation of state (EOS) are thoroughly explored. The stiffness of the EOS can be increased greatly to support a two-solar-mass pure quark star when α is greater than 0.9, because the contribution from the vector term is retained by the Fierz transformation. Our result is also within the constraints on the radius from the recent data analysis of the tidal deformability. This means that the current theoretical calculations and astronomical observations cannot rule out the possibility of a two-flavor pure quark star.

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  • Received 22 April 2019
  • Revised 3 July 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.043018

© 2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Tong Zhao1,*, Wei Zheng2,†, Fei Wang1,‡, Cheng-Ming Li1,§, Yan Yan3,∥, Yong-Feng Huang4,¶, and Hong-Shi Zong1,5,6,**

  • 1Department of physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 2College of Physics Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
  • 3School of mathematics and physics, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, China
  • 4Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 5Joint Center for Particle, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 6State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, Beijing 100190, China

  • *zhao708@purdue.edu
  • 007128@yzu.edu.cn
  • 1194899400@qq.com
  • §licm.phys@gmail.com
  • 2919ywhhxh@163.com
  • hyf@nju.edu.cn
  • **zonghs@nju.edu.cn

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Vol. 100, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2019

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