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Electron shielding of vortons in high-density quark matter

Nuclear Theory 2012-06-08 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider the the effect of the electron cloud about a vorton in the CFL-K0K^0 high-density phase by numerically solving the ultrarelativistic Thomas-Fermi equation about a toroidal charge. Including electrons removes the electric monopole contribution to the energy, and noticeably decreases the equilibrium radius of these stable vortex loops.

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@article{arxiv.1112.1386,
  title  = {Electron shielding of vortons in high-density quark matter},
  author = {Paulo F. Bedaque and Evan Berkowitz and Geoffrey Ji and Nathan Ng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.1386},
  year   = {2012}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures