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Effective description of the LOFF phase of QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

We present an effective field theory for the crystalline color superconductivity phase of QCD. It is kown that at high density and at low temperature QCD exhibits a transition to a color superconducting phase characterized by energy gaps in the fermion spectra. Under specific circumstances the gap parameter has a crystalline pattern, breaking translational and rotational invariance. The corresponding phase is the crystalline color superconductive phase (or {\it LOFF} phase). We compute the parameters of the low energy effective lagrangian describing the motion of the free phonon in the high density medium and derive the phonon dispersion law.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0205098,
  title  = {Effective description of the LOFF phase of QCD},
  author = {M. Mannarelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0205098},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Talk at the Giselda Meeting, Frascti (Roma), 14-18 Jen 2001. Latex file, 7 pages, 1 figure