Symmetry Energy Effects on the Mixed Hadron-Quark Phase at High Baryon Density

Understand

The phase transition of hadronic to quark matter at high baryon and isospin density is analyzed.

• Relativistic mean field models are used to describe hadronic matter, and the MIT bag model is adopted for quark matter.
• The boundaries of the mixed phase and the related critical points for symmetric and asymmetric matter are obtained.
• Due to the different symmetry term in the two phases, isospin effects appear to be rather significant.