Matter at high density and low temperature is expected to be a color superconductor, which
is a degenerate Fermi gas of quarks with a condensate of Cooper pairs near the Fermi …

Investigations of deconfined quark matter within NJL-type models are reviewed, focusing on
the regime of low temperatures and “moderate” densities, which is not accessible by …

The current status of theoretical studies on the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase
diagram at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential is reviewed with special …

Astrophysicists distinguish between three different kinds of compact stars. These are white
dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. The former contain matter in one of the densest forms …

We show that a hybrid (nuclear+ quark matter) star can have a mass-radius relationship very
similar to that predicted for a star made of purely nucleonic matter. We show this for a …

This exhaustive survey is the result of a four year effort by many leading researchers in the
field to produce both a readable introduction and a yardstick for the many upcoming …

A fundamental question of physics is what ultimately happens to matter as it is heated or
compressed. In the realm of very high temperature and density the fundamental degrees of …

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We demonstrate that astrophysical constraints on the dense-matter equation of state place
an upper bound on the color-superconducting gap in dense matter above the transition from …

We study the phase diagram of dense, locally neutral three-flavor quark matter within the
framework of the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. In the analysis, dynamically generated quark …