Evidence grows for deconfined quark matter in neutron-star cores
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:13 am
"At extreme temperatures and pressures, quantum field theory predicts that quarks and gluons no longer bind tightly to each other – as they do in protons, neutrons and other hadrons. Instead, they are free to exist individually in an exotic quark–gluon plasma called deconfined quark matter."
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https://physicsworld.com/a/evidence-gro ... tar-cores/