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Colour-Charged Quark Matter in Astrophysics? |
| QIU Cong-Xin;XU Ren-Xin2 |
| ¹School of Space and Earth Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871
²School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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QIU Cong-Xin, XU Ren-Xin 2006 Chin. Phys. Lett. 23 3205-3207 |
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Abstract Colour confinement is only a supposition, which has not yet been proven in QCD. Here we propose that macroscopic quark--gluon plasma in astrophysics could hardly maintain colourless because of causality. It is expected that the existence of chromatic strange quark stars as well as chromatic strangelets preserved from the QCD phase transition in the early Universe could be unavoidable if their colourless correspondents do exist.
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12.38.Aw
12.38.Mh
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Published: 01 December 2006
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12.38.Aw
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(General properties of QCD (dynamics, confinement, etc.))
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(Quark-gluon plasma)
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97.60.Jd
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(Neutron stars)
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98.80.Cq
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(Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.))
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