Kavli Affiliate: Renxin Xu | First 5 Authors: Wen-Li Yuan, Bikai Gao, Yan Yan, Bolin Li, Renxin Xu | Summary: We extend the parity doublet model for hadronic matter and study the possible presence of quark matter inside the cores of neutron stars with the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. Considering the uncertainties of the QCD phase […]
Continue.. Investigating the competition between the deconfinement and chiral phase transitions in light of the multimessenger observations of neutron stars