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Novel phases and transitions in Color Flavor Locked matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3 Astrophysics Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We analyze the phases of dense quark matter at nonzero quark masses. We map out the phase diagrams for charged quark matter as well as charge neutral matter containing leptons. We find that in Color Flavor Locked (CFL) quark matter, the symmetric phase with equal numbers of uu, dd and ss quarks is unlikely to occur in nature. Various less symmetric phases with additional meson condensates may play a role in neutron star cores, however, in agreement with the analysis of Bedaque and Sch\"afer. We discuss the implications of these novel color superconducting quark matter phases and their transitions for neutron stars.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0107265,
  title  = {Novel phases and transitions in Color Flavor Locked matter},
  author = {David B. Kaplan and Sanjay Reddy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0107265},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages 3 figures