Kavli Affiliate: Renxin Xu
| First 5 Authors: Wen-Li Yuan, Bikai Gao, Yan Yan, Renxin Xu,
| Summary:
Using the parity doublet model (PDM) for hadronic matter and a modified
Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model for quark matter, we investigate the potential
existence of two- and three-flavor quark matter in neutron star cores. Both
models respect chiral symmetry, and a sharp first-order phase transition is
implemented via Maxwell construction. We find stable neutron stars with quark
cores within a specific parameter space that satisfies current astronomical
observations. Typical neutron stars with masses around $1.4 M_odot$ may
possess deconfined quark matter in their centers. The hybrid star scenario with
a two-flavor quark core offers enough parameter space to allow the neutron
stars with large quark cores exceeding $sim 1 M_odot$, and allow the early
deconfinement position before $2 rho_0$, where $rho_0$ is the nuclear
saturation density. The observations of gravitational wave event GW170817
suggest a relatively large chiral invariant mass $m_0=600 rm MeV$ in the PDM
for scenarios involving three-flavor quark matter cores. The maximum mass of
the hybrid star with a quark core is found to be approximately $2.2 M_odot$
for both two- or three-flavor quark matter in their centers.
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