The Quark Structure of the Nucleon and Moat Regimes in Nuclear Matter
Nuclear Theory
2025-09-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We employ a model of nuclear structure that takes into account the quark substructure of the baryons to understand the behavior of static two-point correlation functions of meson fields in dense nuclear matter. We show that these correlation functions display ``moat'' regimes, where the inverse static correlation function is nonmonotonic in momentum space. This can have interesting consequences for the nature of nuclear matter, and it strengthens the possibility of a liquid-crystal phase for high densities.
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@article{arxiv.2508.09287,
title = {The Quark Structure of the Nucleon and Moat Regimes in Nuclear Matter},
author = {Theo F. Motta and Gastão Krein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.09287},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
accepted version, typos corrected, no significant change