English

Thermal quarks and gluon propagators in two-color dense QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-05-19 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study Landau gauge gluon propagators in two-color QCD at finite quark chemical potential (μq\mu_q) and temperature (TT). We include medium polarization effects at one-loop by quarks into massive gluon propagators, and compared the analytic results with the available lattice data. We particularly focus on the high density phase of color-singlet diquark condensates whose critical temperature is 100\sim 100 MeV with weak dependence on μq\mu_q. At zero temperature the color singlet condensates protect the IR limit of electric and magnetic gluon propagators from the medium screening effects. At finite temperature, this behavior remains true for the magnetic sector, but the electric screening mass should be generated by thermal, and hence gapless, particles which are unbound from the diquark condensates. Treating thermal excitations as quasi-quarks, we found that the electric screening develops too fast compared to the lattice results. Beyond the critical temperature for diquark condensates the analytic results are consistent with the lattice results.

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@article{arxiv.2102.07231,
  title  = {Thermal quarks and gluon propagators in two-color dense QCD},
  author = {Toru Kojo and Daiki Suenaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07231},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 10 figures; v2 published in PRD