Symmetry Energy Expansion with Strange Dense Matter

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Main Authors: Yang, Yumu, Camacho, Nikolas Cruz, Hippert, Mauricio, Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn
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Published: 2025
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author Yang, Yumu
Camacho, Nikolas Cruz
Hippert, Mauricio
Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn
author_facet Yang, Yumu
Camacho, Nikolas Cruz
Hippert, Mauricio
Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn
contents The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram at large densities and low temperatures can be probed using both neutron stars and low-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-ion collisions are nearly isospin-symmetric systems, whereas neutron stars are highly isospin asymmetric since they are neutron-rich. The symmetry-energy expansion is used to connect these regimes across isospin asymmetry. However, the current symmetry-energy expansion does not account for strange particles. In this work, we include finite strangeness by redefining the isospin-asymmetry parameter and the symmetry-energy expansion in a way that is consistent with QCD SU(3) flavor symmetry. Our new symmetry energy works well beyond typical neutron star central densities and admits a skewness term in the presence of strangeness for the case of weak equilibrium.
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spellingShingle Symmetry Energy Expansion with Strange Dense Matter
Yang, Yumu
Camacho, Nikolas Cruz
Hippert, Mauricio
Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn
Nuclear Theory
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram at large densities and low temperatures can be probed using both neutron stars and low-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-ion collisions are nearly isospin-symmetric systems, whereas neutron stars are highly isospin asymmetric since they are neutron-rich. The symmetry-energy expansion is used to connect these regimes across isospin asymmetry. However, the current symmetry-energy expansion does not account for strange particles. In this work, we include finite strangeness by redefining the isospin-asymmetry parameter and the symmetry-energy expansion in a way that is consistent with QCD SU(3) flavor symmetry. Our new symmetry energy works well beyond typical neutron star central densities and admits a skewness term in the presence of strangeness for the case of weak equilibrium.
title Symmetry Energy Expansion with Strange Dense Matter
topic Nuclear Theory
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18764