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CFL Phase of High Density QCD at Non Zero Strange Quark Mass

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We compute free energy of quark matter at asymptotically high baryon number density in the presence of non zero strange quark mass including dynamics of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons due to chiral symmetry breaking, extending previously existing analysis based on perturbative expansion in ms2/4μΔ.m_s^2/4\mu\Delta. We demonstrate that the CFLK0K^0 state has lower free energy than the symmetric CFL state for 0<ms2/4μΔ<2/30<m_s^2/4\mu\Delta<2/3. We also calculate the spectrum of the fermionic quasiparticle excitations about the kaon condensed ground state in the regime ms2/4μΔ1m_s^2/4\mu\Delta \sim 1 and find that (ms2/4μΔ)crit=2/3(m_s^2/4\mu\Delta)_{crit}=2/3 for the CFL-gCFL phase transition, the leading order result reported in [1], is not modified.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0407350,
  title  = {CFL Phase of High Density QCD at Non Zero Strange Quark Mass},
  author = {Andrei Kryjevski and Daisuke Yamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0407350},
  year   = {2008}
}

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16 pages, 3 figures