The conjecture of Bodmer–Witten–Terazawa suggesting a form of quark matter(Strange Quark Matter)as the ground state of hadronic interactions has been studied in laboratory and astrophysical contexts by a large number of ...

We present selected results on the properties of strange and heavy-flavoured mesons in a hot and dense nuclear medium, with emphasis in selfconsistent coupled-channel approaches based on the chiral Lagrangian. In the ...

This short review aims at giving a brief overview of various states of matter that have been suggested to exist in the ultra-dense centers of neutron stars. Particular emphasis is put on the role of quark deconfinement in ...