Vanishing condensates and anomalously light Goldstone modes in medium
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v3
Abstract
We show that in a uniform medium, the vanishing of a particular condensate along with spontaneously broken symmetry imply the existence of an anomalously light pseudo-Goldstone mode. The consequences for a vanishing chiral condensate in nuclear matter are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9407354,
title = {Vanishing condensates and anomalously light Goldstone modes in medium},
author = {T. D. Cohen and W. Broniowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9407354},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
U. of Maryland preprint DOE-ER-40762-043, 13 pp, (RevTeX). -- More physics discussion added, in particular for the kaon condensation problem. Results unchanged