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Pi0 -> Gamma Gamma in Dense QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

QCD superconductors in the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase support light excitations (generalized pions) in the form of particle-particle or hole-hole excitations. We analyze the generalized process π~0γ~γ~\tilde\pi^0\to\tilde{\gamma}\tilde{\gamma} in the weak coupling limit and show that it is related to the recently suggested Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) term. In dense QCD, the radiative decay of the generalized pion is constrained by geometry and vanishes at large density.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0007034,
  title  = {Pi0 -> Gamma Gamma in Dense QCD},
  author = {Maciej A. Nowak and Mannque Rho and Andreas Wirzba and Ismail Zahed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0007034},
  year   = {2007}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure

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