Cooling of Hybrid Stars with a 2SC+ <dd> Phase
Tsuneo Noda, Akira Dohi, Nobutoshi Yasutake, Huan Chen, Toshiki Maruyama, Toshitaka Tatsumi
nucl-th, astro-ph.HE
Submitted: 2026-06-30
Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Recently, Fujimoto, Fukushima & Weise (2019) have proposed a new colour-superconductive state, 2SC+ <dd> phase, which can be smoothly connected to the low-density baryon superfluidity in contrast to
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Abstract
Recently, Fujimoto, Fukushima & Weise (2019) have proposed a new colour-superconductive state, 2SC+ <dd> phase, which can be smoothly connected to the low-density baryon superfluidity in contrast to the 2SC phase. In this scenario, the neutron 3P 2 superfluidity on the low-density side of the phase transition is inherited by unpaired d-quarks in the 2SC phase on the high-density side. Since this could be realized in hybrid stars (neutron stars containing hadronic and quark matter), the 2SC+ <dd> phase may change the properties of neutron stars compared to the traditional 2SC phase. In this work, we study the thermal evolution of hybrid stars with the 2SC+ <dd> phase for the first time. We find that NSs with the 2SC+ <dd> phase become hotter than those with the 2SC phase, and are close to the CFL phase. The cubedP 2 superfluidity plays an important role in cooling curves with not the 2SC but 2SC+ <dd> phases due to the suppression of quark beta decay. We therefore point out that, if the scenario of 2SC+ <dd> phase is true, it could be specified through low-temperature observations such as Vela, 3C58, Vela Jr., and Vela-like pulsar.
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