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New phases in CFL quark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We consider order αs\alpha_s corrections to the squared masses of the pseudo-Goldstone excitations about the ground state of dense quark matter. We show that these contributions tend to destabilize the vacuum, leading to a surprisingly complex phase structure for quark matter as a function of quark mass, even for small αs\alpha_s. In particular we find two new phases of CFL quark matter possibly relevant for the real world, for which the QCD angle theta-bar equals pi/2.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0404290,
  title  = {New phases in CFL quark matter},
  author = {Andrei Kryjevski and David B. Kaplan and Thomas Schaefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0404290},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures

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