Optically opaque color-flavor locked phase inside compact stars
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v2 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The contribution of thermally excited electron-positron pairs to the bulk properties of the color-flavor locked quark phase inside compact stars is examined. The presence of these pairs causes the photon mean free path to be much smaller than a typical core radius ( km) for all temperatures above 25 keV so that the photon contribution to the thermal conductivity is much smaller than that of the Nambu-Goldstone bosons. We also find that the electrons and positrons dominate the electrical conductivity, while their contributions to the total thermal energy is negligible.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0211049,
title = {Optically opaque color-flavor locked phase inside compact stars},
author = {Igor A. Shovkovy and Paul J. Ellis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0211049},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 figures. Published version