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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