Preprint
Nov 2026
Deconfinement Confined to the Heaviest Neutron Stars: Strange Quark Matter from a Flavor-Dressed Contact Interaction
We study cold, electrically neutral, beta-equilibrated quark matter with u, d, and s quarks described by a symmetry-preserving contact interaction whose parameters are fixed in vacuum. The vector repulsion is varied as a fraction 0<eta<3/2 of the scalar coupling, and results are given with and without the flavor dressi...
Aftab Ahmad, Noreen Akhter, A. Raya
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