Stellar Core Collapse with Hadron-Quark Phase Transition

Understand

Hadronic matter undergoes a deconfinement transition to quark matter at high temperature and/or high density.

• It would be realized in collapsing cores of massive stars.
• In the framework of MIT bag model, the ambiguities of the interaction are encapsulated in the bag constant.
• Some progenitor stars that invoke the core collapses explode as supernovae, and other ones become black holes.