Bulk strong matter: The trinity

X Lai, C **a, R Xu - Advances in Physics: X, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Our world is wonderful because of the normal but negligibly small baryonic part (ie atoms)
although unknown dark matter and dark energy dominate the Universe. A stable atomic …

Scientific objectives of the Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) mission

J Bregman, R Cen, Y Chen, W Cui, T Fang… - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) is a proposed space-based X-ray
telescope for detecting X-ray emissions from the hot gas content in our universe. With its …

Interface effects of quark matter: Light-quark nuggets and compact stars

CJ **a, JF Xu, GX Peng, RX Xu - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The interface effects of quark matter play important roles in the properties of compact stars
and small nuggets, such as strangelets and nonstrange quark matter (ud QM) nuggets. By …

Rotation and deformation of strangeon stars in the Lennard-Jones model

Y Gao, XY Lai, L Shao, RX Xu - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The strong interactions at low energy scales determine the state of the supranuclear matter
in the pulsar-like compact objects. It is proposed that the bulk strong matter could be …

Stable up-down quark matter nuggets, quark star crusts, and a new family of white dwarfs

L Wang, J Hu, CJ **a, JF Xu, GX Peng, RX Xu - Galaxies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The possible existence of stable up-down quark matter (ud QM) was recently proposed, and
it was shown that the properties of ud QM stars are consistent with various pulsar …

Strangeons constitute bulk strong matter: Test using GW 170817

X Lai, E Zhou, R Xu - The European Physical Journal A, 2019 - Springer
The fundamental strong interaction determines the nature of pulsar-like compact stars which
are essentially in the form of bulk strong matter. From an observational point of view, it is …

Strangeon and strangeon star

L **aoyu, X Renxin - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of pulsar-like compact stars is essentially a central question of the fundamental
strong interaction (explained in quantum chromo-dynamics) at low energy scale, the solution …

Pulsar glitch in a strangeon star model–III. The recovery

XY Lai, WH Wang, JP Yuan, RP Lu… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Strangeon star model has passed various observational tests, such as the massive pulsars
and the tidal deformability during binary mergers. Pulsar glitch, as a useful probe for …

Bayesian inference of quark star equation of state using the NICER PSR J0030+0451 data

A Li, ZQ Miao, JL Jiang, SP Tang… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We constrain the equation of state of quark stars within the Bayesian statistical approach
using the mass and radius measurements of PSR J0030+ 0451 from NICER. Three types of …

Dependence of pulsar death line on the equation of state

X Zhou, H Tong, C Zhu, N Wang - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Pulsar death line can be defined in a diagram. Traditionally, radio-loud pulsars are
supposed to locate above the death line where there is a radio-loud region. With the …