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We argue that the QCD matter not far above a critical confinement-deconfinement baryon density and low temperatures can develop spontaneously the condensates of spin-one quark Cooper pairs. Depending upon their color these condensates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiri Hosek

We summarize some recent results on the structure of QCD at very high baryon density.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Thomas Schaefer

We show that if color superconducting quark matter forms in hybrid or quark stars it is possible to satisfy most of recent observational boundaries on masses and radii of compact stellar objects. An energy of the order of $10^{53}$ erg is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Drago , A. Lavagno , G. Pagliara

It is quite plausible that color superconductivity occurs in the inner regions of neutron stars. At the same time, it is known that strong magnetic fields exist in the interior of these compact objects. In this paper we discuss some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Efrain J. Ferrer , Vivian de la Incera

We review recent work on the phase structure of QCD at very high baryon density. We introduce the phenomenon of color superconductivity and discuss how the quark masses and chemical potentials determine the structure of the superfluid quark…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Schaefer , Edward Shuryak

We investigate the effect of six fermion determinant interaction on color superconductivity as well as on chiral symmetry breaking. Coupled mass gap equations and the superconducting gap equation are derived through the minimisation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Amruta Mishra , Hiranmaya Mishra

We study the emergence of color superconductivity in the theory of the strong interaction at supranuclear densities. To this end, we follow the renormalization group (RG) flow of dense strong-interaction matter with two massless quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Jens Braun , Benedikt Schallmo

We investigate color superconducting phases of cold quark matter at densities relevant for the interiors of compact stars. At these densities, electrically neutral and weak-equilibrated quark matter can have unequal numbers of up, down, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Jeffrey A. Bowers

Two kinds of difficulties have challenged the physics community for many years: (1) knowing nature's building blocks (particle physics) and (2) understanding interacting many-body systems (many-body physics). Both of them exist in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-14 Renxin Xu

We study compact stars that contain quark matter. We look at the effect of color superconductivity in the quark matter on the nuclear-quark matter transition density, mass-radius relationship, and the density discontinuity at the boundary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Mark Alford , Sanjay Reddy

The color superconductivity of a dense quark matter is reviewed with emphasis on the long range nature of the pairing force and the multiplicity of the order parameter. The former gives rise to a non BCS behavior of the superconducting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hai-cang Ren

The first lecture provides an introduction to the physics of color superconductivity in cold dense quark matter. The main color superconducting phases are briefly described and their properties are listed. The second lecture covers recent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor A. Shovkovy

We describe the crystalline phase of color superconducting quark matter. This phase may occur in quark matter at densities relevant for compact star physics, with possible implications for glitch phenomena in pulsars. We use a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeffrey A. Bowers , Krishna Rajagopal

The two-flavor color superconductivity is examined over a wide range of baryon density with a single model. To study the structural change of Cooper pairs, quark correlation in the color superconductor is calculated both in the momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 H. Abuki , T. Hatsuda , K. Itakura

In this note, we discuss the basic elements that should appear in a gravitational system dual to a confining gauge theory displaying color superconductivity at large baryon density. We consider a simple system with these minimal elements,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Pallab Basu , Fernando Nogueira , Moshe Rozali , Jared B. Stang , Mark Van Raamsdonk

A brief introduction into the properties of dense quark matter is given. Recently proposed gapless color superconducting phases of neutral and beta-equilibrated dense quark matter are discussed. The current status in the field is described,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor A. Shovkovy

A quark-cluster state, rather than the color-super-conductivity state, may appear in matter with low-temperature but high density, since the phase transition of chiral symmetry broken and that of color-confinement could not occur…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Weiwei Zhu , Renxin Xu

According to quantum chromodynamics, matter at ultra-high density and low temperature is a quark liquid, with a condensate of Cooper pairs of quarks near the Fermi surface ("color superconductivity"). This paper reviews the physics of color…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Mark G. Alford

We use a variational procedure to study finite density QCD in an approximation in which the interaction between quarks is modelled by that induced by instantons. We find that uniform states with conventional chiral symmetry breaking have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Krishna Rajagopal

We show that the pseudogap of the quark density of states is formed in hot quark matter as a precursory phenomenon of the color superconductivity on the basis of a low-energy effective theory. We clarify that the decaying process of quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kitazawa , T. Koide , T. Kunihiro , Y. Nemoto