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Why Color-Flavor Locking is Just like Chiral Symmetry Breaking

Nuclear Theory 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We review how a classification into representations of color and flavor can be used to understand the possible patterns of symmetry breaking for color superconductivity in dense quark matter. In particular, we show how for three flavors, color-flavor locking is precisely analogous to the usual pattern of chiral symmetry breaking in the QCD vacuum.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9907094,
  title  = {Why Color-Flavor Locking is Just like Chiral Symmetry Breaking},
  author = {Robert D. Pisarski and Dirk H. Rischke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9907094},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, Proc. of the Judah Eisenberg Memorial Symposium, 'Nuclear Matter, Hot and Cold', Tel Aviv, April 14 - 16, 1999