BROWN DWARFS, QUARK STARS, AND QUARK-HADRON PHASE-TRANSITION

Authors
COTTINGHAM WN KALAFATIS D MAU RV
Citation
Wn. Cottingham et al., BROWN DWARFS, QUARK STARS, AND QUARK-HADRON PHASE-TRANSITION, Physical review letters, 73(10), 1994, pp. 1328-1331
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
73
Issue
10
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1328 - 1331
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)73:10<1328:BDQSAQ>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
It is shown that within an effective model of QCD, the Lee-Wick model, bodies with quark content of mass of the order of 10(-2) to one solar mass can be formed at a temperature T similar to 1 MeV much lower tha n the quark-hadron phase transition temperature. This ensures their st ability until the present epoch, and we suggest that they can be ident ified with the dark objects observed recently by gravitational microle nsing.