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Simultaneous Chiral Symmetry Restoration and Deconfinement Consequences for the QCD Phase Diagram
Journal
Astrophysical Journal
Volume
836
Number
1
Pages / Article-Number
11
Keywords
dense matter, elementary particles, equation of state
Abstract
For studies of quark matter in astrophysical scenarios, the thermodynamic bag model is commonly employed. Although successful, it does not account for dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and repulsions due to the vector interaction which is crucial to explain recent observations of massive, two solar mass neutron stars. In Klähn & Fischer we developed the novel vBag quark matter model which takes these effects into account. This article extends vBag to finite temperatures and isospin asymmetry. Another particular feature of vBag is the determination of the deconfinement bag constant ${B}_{\mathrm{dc}}$ from a given hadronic equation of state in order to ensure that chiral and deconfinement transitions coincide. We discuss consequences of this novel approach for the phase transition construction, the phase diagram, and implications for protoneutron stars.
