Color-flavor locking in strange stars, strangelets, and cosmic rays
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
Three topics with relation to color superconductivity in strange quark matter are discussed. 1) The r-mode instability in strange stars, which is consistent with the existence of ``ordinary'' strange quark matter stars but inconsistent with strange stars in a pure color-flavor locked state. 2) Color-flavor locked strangelets, which are more bound than normal strangelets, and have a different charge-mass relation. 3) Estimates of the strangelet flux in cosmic rays, which is relevant for strangelet detections in upcoming cosmic ray space experiments.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111417,
title = {Color-flavor locking in strange stars, strangelets, and cosmic rays},
author = {Jes Madsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111417},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Invited talk at the Conference on Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram, Copenhagen, August 15-18, 2001. 12 pages incl. 3 figures