Scalar-isoscalar excitation in dense quark matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We study the spectrum of scalar-isoscalar excitations in the color-flavor locked phase of dense quark matter. The sigma meson in this phase appears as a four-quark state (of diquark and anti-diquark) with a well-defined mass and extremely small width, as a consequence of it's small coupling to two pions. The quark particle/hole degrees of freedom also contribute significantly to the correlator just above the threshold 2\Delta where \Delta is the superconducting gap.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209249,
title = {Scalar-isoscalar excitation in dense quark matter},
author = {Prashanth Jaikumar and Ismail Zahed},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209249},
year = {2009}
}
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RevTeX, 11 pages, 4 figs