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Quark or hybrid neutron-quark stars are composed, in whole or in part, of quark matter. Such a state of matter was conceived soon after the realization that quarks, the constituents of nucleons, are asymptotically free. At the extreme of asymptotic momentum transfer, density, or temperature, quarks are free of interaction. Under such circumstances the individuality of nucleons is lost, and the quarks of nuclear matter are free to explore a much larger “colorless” region of space referred to as quark matter.
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Glendenning, N.K. (1997). Quark Stars. In: Compact Stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0491-3_8
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