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Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We review, clarify, and extend the notion of color-flavor locking. We present evidence that for three degenerate flavors the qualitative features of the color-flavor locked state, reliably predicted for high density, match the expected features of hadronic matter at low density. This provides, in particular, a controlled, weak-coupling realization of confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in this (slight) idealization of QCD.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9811473,
  title  = {Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter},
  author = {Thomas Schaefer and Frank Wilczek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9811473},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages