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Hadron Wavefunctions as a Probe of a Two Color Baryonic Medium

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-25 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The properties of the ground state of two-color QCD at non-zero baryon chemical potential μ\mu present an interesting problem in strongly-interacting gauge theory; in particular the nature of the physically-relevant degrees of freedom in the superfluid phase in the post-onset regime μ>mπ/2\mu>m_\pi/2 still needs clarification. In this study we present evidence for in-medium effects at high μ\mu by studying the wavefunctions of mesonic and diquark states using orthodox lattice simulation techniques, made possible by the absence of a Sign Problem for the model with Nf=2N_f=2. Our results show that beyond onset the spatial extent of hadrons decreases as μ\mu grows, and that the wavefunction profiles are consistent with the existence of a dynamically-gapped Fermi surface in this regime.

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@article{arxiv.1501.03004,
  title  = {Hadron Wavefunctions as a Probe of a Two Color Baryonic Medium},
  author = {Alessandro Amato and Pietro Giudice and Simon Hands},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.03004},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages, 9 figures