2008/02/29 by G. E. Brown, Chang‐Hwan Lee, C. -H. Lee +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.091101
published as Phys.Rev.Lett.101:091101,2008; Phys.Rev.Lett.101:119901,2008 · 4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in PRL
openalex publication_date 2008/08/28 · arxiv created 2008/09/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is argued that a well-measured double neutron-star binary in which the two neutron stars are more than 4% different from each other in mass or a massive neutron star with mass M > or approximately 2M(middle dot in circle) would put in serious doubt or simply falsify the following chain of predictions: (1) a nearly vanishing vector meson mass at chiral restoration, (2) kaon condensation at a density n-3n0, (3) the Brown-Bethe maximum neutron-star mass Mmax approximately 1.5M(middle dot in circle), and (4) Smolin's "cosmological natural selection" hypothesis.