Meson Supercurrent State in High Density QCD

dc.creatorSchaefer, Thomas
dc.date2005-08-17
dc.date2006-01-24
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dc.descriptionWe study the effect of a non-zero strange quark mass on the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase of high density quark matter. We have previously shown that for a strange quark mass $m_s\sim m_u^{1/3}Δ^{2/3}$ the CFL state becomes unstable toward the formation of a neutral kaon condensate. Recently, several authors discovered that for $m_s\sim (2Δp_F)^{1/2}$ the CFL state contains gapless fermions, and that the gapless modes lead to an instability in current-current correlation functions. Using an effective theory of the CFL state we demonstrate that this instability is resolved by the formation of an inhomogeneous meson condensate, analogous to Migdal's p-wave pion condensate. This state has a non-zero meson current which is canceled by a backflow of gapless fermions.
dc.description4 pages, one figure, revised version, to appear in PRL (title changed in journal)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0508190
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0508190
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett.96:012305,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.012305
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/189012
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleMeson Supercurrent State in High Density QCD
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