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Neutron star structure from QCD

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In this review article, we argue that our current understanding of the thermodynamic properties of cold QCD matter, originating from first principles calculations at high and low densities, can be used to efficiently constrain the macroscopic properties of neutron stars. In particular, we demonstrate that combining state-of-the-art results from Chiral Effective Theory and perturbative QCD with the current bounds on neutron star masses, the Equation of State of neutron star matter can be obtained to an accuracy better than 30% at all densities.

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  1. Instituto de Fısica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, 21941-972, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Eduardo S. Fraga

  2. Theory Division, PH-TH, Case C01600, CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    Aleksi Kurkela

  3. Faculty of Science Technology, University of Stavanger, 4036, Stavanger, Norway

    Aleksi Kurkela

  4. Helsinki Institute of Physics and Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Aleksi Vuorinen

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Communicated by D. Blaschke

Contribution to the Topical Issue on “Exotic matter in neutron stars” edited by David Blaschke, J¨urgen Schaffner-Bielich, Hans-Josef Schulze.

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S. Fraga, E., Kurkela, A. & Vuorinen, A. Neutron star structure from QCD. Eur. Phys. J. A 52, 49 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16049-6

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