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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Properties of stable massive quark stars in holography
Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan1, Jesús Cruz Rojas2, Jonas Mager3
1Faculty of Physics, Shahrood University of Technology, P.O.Box 3619995161, Shahrood, Iran.
Abstract:
We study a holographic D3/D7 system, whose dilaton profile has been phenomenologically adjusted in the infrared. The model is used to describe a deconfined yet massive quark phase of QCD at finite density, concluding that the equation of state of such a phase can be stiff enough to support exotic dense stars as massive as 2 solar masses. Nucleons are modeled phenomenologically using the Hebeler et al. EFT baryon phases. For the stiff phenomenological baryon phases the transition to the quark phase is weakly first order allowing for stable quark cores. We also find that holographic baryons, modeled as wrapped D5-branes, provide unrealistic pressures (in the homogeneous approximation) and have to be discarded. We compute the mass vs. radius relation and tidal deformability for these hybrid stars. Contrary to a large number of other holographic models, this holographic model indicates that quark matter could be present at the core of heavy compact stars and may be used to explore the phenomenology of such objects.
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