TY - GEN
T1 - Gapless CFL and its competition with mixed phases
AU - Alford, Mark
AU - Kouvaris, Christoforos
AU - Rajagopal, Krishna
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - We recently argued that as the density of quark matter decreases, there is a
continuous transition from the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase to a gapless
"gCFL" phase. The reason is the growing importance of the strange quark mass,
and the constraint of electric/color neutrality. In this paper we discuss mixed
phases that achieve neutrality by charge seperation, and might offer an
alternative to the gCFL phase. We find that none of the obvious mixtures is
favored relative to gCFL.
AB - We recently argued that as the density of quark matter decreases, there is a
continuous transition from the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase to a gapless
"gCFL" phase. The reason is the growing importance of the strange quark mass,
and the constraint of electric/color neutrality. In this paper we discuss mixed
phases that achieve neutrality by charge seperation, and might offer an
alternative to the gCFL phase. We find that none of the obvious mixtures is
favored relative to gCFL.
KW - hep-ph
KW - nucl-th
M3 - Conference article
JO - Strong and Electroweak Matter: Proceedings. World Scientific,
JF - Strong and Electroweak Matter: Proceedings. World Scientific,
ER -