New phases in CFL quark matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We consider order 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 . 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures