Equation of state for dense QCD and quark stars
- 5 November 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 66 (10)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.66.105001
Abstract
We calculate the equation of state for degenerate quark matter to leading order in hard-dense-loop (HDL) perturbation theory. We solve the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equations to obtain the mass-radius relation for dense quark stars. Both the perturbative QCD and the HDL equations of state have a large variation with respect to the renormalization scale for quark chemical potential below 1 GeV which leads to large theoretical uncertainties in the quark star mass-radius relation.Keywords
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