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Quantum Anomalies in Dense Matter

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

Abstract

We consider the effects of quantum anomalies involving the baryon current for high-density matter. In the effective Lagrangian, the anomaly terms describe the interaction of three light fields: the electromagnetic photons A_mu, neutral light Nambu-Goldstone bosons (pi, eta, eta'), and the superfluid phonon. The anomaly induced interactions lead to a number of interesting phenomena which may have phenomenological consequences observable in neutron stars.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0405216,
  title  = {Quantum Anomalies in Dense Matter},
  author = {D. T. Son and A. R. Zhitnitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0405216},
  year   = {2007}
}

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