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

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作者
COTTINGHAM, WN
KALAFATIS, D
MAU, RV
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[1] UNIV MANCHESTER, DEPT PHYS, MANCHESTER M13 9PL, LANCS, ENGLAND
[2] INST PHYS NUCL LYON, DIV PHYS THEOR, F-91406 ORSAY, FRANCE
[3] UNIV PARIS 06, PHYS THEOR & PARTICULES ELEMENTAIRES LAB, F-75252 PARIS 05, FRANCE
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1328
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
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 than the quark-hadron phase transition temperature. This ensures their stability until the present epoch, and we suggest that they can be identified with the dark objects observed recently by gravitational microlensing.
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