Comparing strange and non-strange quark stars within resummed QCD at NLO
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| author | Restrepo, Tulio E. Kneur, Jean-Loïc Providência, Constança Pinto, Marcus Benghi |
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| contents | We employ the renormalization group optimized perturbation theory (RGOPT) resummation method to evaluate the equation of state (EoS) for strange ($N_f=2+1$) and non-strange ($N_f=2$) cold quark matter at NLO. This allows us to obtain the mass-radius relation for pure quark stars and compare the results with the predictions from perturbative QCD (pQCD) at NNLO. Choosing the renormalization scale to generate maximum star masses of order $M=2 - 2.6 M_\odot$, we show that the RGOPT can produce mass-radius curves compatible with the masses and radii of some recently observed pulsars, regardless of their strangeness content. The scale values required to produce the desired maximum masses are higher in the strange scenario since the EoS is softer in this case. The possible reasons for such behavior are discussed. Our results also show that, as expected, the RGOPT predictions for the relevant observables are less sensitive to scale variations than those furnished by pQCD. |
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| spellingShingle | Comparing strange and non-strange quark stars within resummed QCD at NLO Restrepo, Tulio E. Kneur, Jean-Loïc Providência, Constança Pinto, Marcus Benghi High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Nuclear Theory We employ the renormalization group optimized perturbation theory (RGOPT) resummation method to evaluate the equation of state (EoS) for strange ($N_f=2+1$) and non-strange ($N_f=2$) cold quark matter at NLO. This allows us to obtain the mass-radius relation for pure quark stars and compare the results with the predictions from perturbative QCD (pQCD) at NNLO. Choosing the renormalization scale to generate maximum star masses of order $M=2 - 2.6 M_\odot$, we show that the RGOPT can produce mass-radius curves compatible with the masses and radii of some recently observed pulsars, regardless of their strangeness content. The scale values required to produce the desired maximum masses are higher in the strange scenario since the EoS is softer in this case. The possible reasons for such behavior are discussed. Our results also show that, as expected, the RGOPT predictions for the relevant observables are less sensitive to scale variations than those furnished by pQCD. |
| title | Comparing strange and non-strange quark stars within resummed QCD at NLO |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Nuclear Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14935 |