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Dyson-Schwinger approach to color superconductivity at finite temperature and density

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-07-30 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the phases of dense QCD matter at finite temperature with Dyson-Schwinger equations for the quark propagator for N_f=2+1 flavors. For the gluon propagator we take a fit to quenched lattice data and add quark-loop effects perturbatively in a hard-thermal-loop--hard-dense-loop approximation. We consider 2SC and CFL-like pairing with chiral up and down quarks and massive strange quarks and present results for the condensates and the phase diagram. We find a dominant CFL phase at chemical potentials larger than 500-600 MeV. At lower values of the chemical potential we find a 2SC phase, which also exists in a small band at higher temperatures for larger chemical potentials. With values of 20-30 MeV, the critical temperatures to the normal phase turn out to be quite small.

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@article{arxiv.1303.2693,
  title  = {Dyson-Schwinger approach to color superconductivity at finite temperature and density},
  author = {Daniel Müller and Michael Buballa and Jochen Wambach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2693},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

14 pages, 9 figures; v2: Fixed compatibility problems with latest evince version (Feynman diagrams not visible); v3: Discussion of chiral condensate added, discussion of strange quark mass changed, section VI. added, accepted version