Implications of the fermion vacuum term in the extended SU(3) Quark Meson model on compact stars properties

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We study the impact of the fermion vacuum term in the SU(3) quark meson model on the equation of state and determine the vacuum parameters for various sigma meson masses.

• We examine its influence on the equation of state and on the resulting mass radius relations for compact stars.
• The tidal deformability $\Lambda$ of the stars is studied and compared to the results of the mean field approximation.
• Parameter sets which fulfill the tidal deformability bounds of GW170817 together with the observed two solar mass limit turn out to be restricted to a quite small parameter range in the mean field approximation.