Small, dense quark stars from perturbative QCD
Small, dense quark stars from perturbative QCD
As a model for nonideal behavior in the equation of state of QCD at high density, we consider cold quark matter in perturbation theory. To second order in the strong coupling constant ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s},$ the results depend sensitively on the choice of the renormalization mass scale. Certain choices of this scale …