NA Xue-Sen1) XU Ren-Xin2) School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China
Abstract:
It is still a matter of debate to understand the equation of state of cold matter with supra-nuclear density in compact stars because of unknown non-perturbative strong interaction between quarks. Nevertheless, it is speculated from an astrophysical view point that quark clusters could form in cold quark matter due to strong coupling at realistic baryon densities. Although it is hard to calculate this conjectured matter from first principles, one can expect that the inter-cluster interaction will share some...