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Phase structure of QC2D at high temperature and density

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2012-10-26 v1

Abstract

We study two-color QCD with two flavors of Wilson fermion as a function of quark chemical potential mu and temperature T. We find evidence of a superfluid phase at intermediate mu and low T where the quark number density and diquark condensate are both very well described by a Fermi sphere of nearly-free quarks disrupted by a BCS condensate. This gives way to a region of deconfined quark matter at higher T and mu, with the deconfinement temperature decreasing only very slowly with increasing chemical potential. We find that heavy quarkonium bound states persist in the S-wave channels at all T and mu, with an energy reflecting the phase structure. P-wave states appear not to survive in the quarkyonic region.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6757,
  title  = {Phase structure of QC2D at high temperature and density},
  author = {Seamus Cotter and Jon-Ivar Skullerud and Pietro Giudice and Simon Hands and Seyong Kim and Dhagash Mehta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6757},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

7 pages, 9 eps figures, presented at Lattice 2012, Cairns, Australia

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