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Diquark Condensation in High Density Baryon Matter

Nuclear Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We argue that cold quark matter is a color superconductor. The Cooper pairs of QCD are spin-isospin zero, color anti-triplet diquarks. In this contribution we review some of the available information on the quark-quark interaction in QCD. We show that instantons provide a strongly attractive interaction in the scalar diquark channel. In the high density phase, this interaction leads to diquark Bose condensation with a gap on the order of 50 MeV.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9806064,
  title  = {Diquark Condensation in High Density Baryon Matter},
  author = {T. Schaefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9806064},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the workshop on QCD at finite Baryon Density, submitted to Nucl. Phys. A