Charged and superconducting vortices in dense quark matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v3 Astrophysics
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Quark matter at astrophysical densities may contain stable vortices due to the spontaneous breaking of hypercharge symmetry by kaon condensation. We argue that these vortices could be both charged and electrically superconducting. Current carrying loops (vortons) could be long lived and play a role in the magnetic and transport properties of this matter. We provide a scenario for vorton formation in protoneutron stars.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0109256,
title = {Charged and superconducting vortices in dense quark matter},
author = {David B. Kaplan and Sanjay Reddy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0109256},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Replaced with the published version. A typographical error in Eq. 2 is corrected