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Phys. Rev. D 73, 034025 (2006) [14 pages]

Phase diagram of neutral quark matter: The effect of neutrino trapping

Stefan B. Rüster,1 Verena Werth,2 Michael Buballa,2 Igor A. Shovkovy,3 and Dirk H. Rischke1
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, J. W. Goethe-Universität, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
3Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, J. W. Goethe-Universität, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Received 9 September 2005; published 23 February 2006

We study the effect of neutrino trapping on the phase diagram of dense, locally neutral three-flavor quark matter within the framework of a Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. In the analysis, dynamically generated quark masses are taken into account self-consistently. The phase diagrams in the plane of temperature and quark chemical potential, as well as in the plane of temperature and lepton-number chemical potential are presented. We show that neutrino trapping favors two-flavor color superconductivity and disfavors the color-flavor-locked phase at intermediate densities of matter. At the same time, the location of the critical line separating the two-flavor color-superconducting phase and the normal phase of quark matter is little affected by the presence of neutrinos. The implications of these results for the evolution of protoneutron stars are briefly discussed.

©2006 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.034025
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.034025
PACS: 12.39.-x; 12.38.Aw; 26.60.+c
  • 12.39.-x
    Phenomenological quark models
  • 12.38.Aw
    General properties of QCD (dynamics, confinement, etc.)
  • 26.60.+c
    Nuclear matter aspects of neutron stars
  • YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS: quark matter, colour model, quark mass, phase diagrams, chemical potential, neutrinos

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