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Kaon superfluidity in the early universe

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-05-14 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Previously, it was found that pion superfluidity could be realized in the QCD epoch of the early universe, when lepton flavor asymmetry le+lμ|l_{\rm e}+l_\mu| is large enough to generate a charge chemical potential μQ|\mu_{\rm Q}| larger than vacuum pion mass. By following the same logic, kaon superfluidity might also be possible when le+lμ|l_{\rm e}+l_\mu| is so large that μQ|\mu_{\rm Q}| becomes larger than vacuum kaon mass. Such a possibility is checked by adopting Ginzburg-Landau approximation within the three-flavor Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. Consider the case with full chemical balance, though kaon superfluidity could be stable compared to the chiral phases with only σ\sigma condensations, it would get killed by the more favored homogeneous pion superfluidity. If we introduce mismatch between ss and dd quarks, kaon superfluidity would require so large ss quark density that such a state is impossible in the early universe.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2405.07208,
  title  = {Kaon superfluidity in the early universe},
  author = {Gaoqing Cao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.07208},
  year   = {2024}
}
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