High density quark matter and the renormalization group in QCD with two and three flavors

Oct, 1998
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 450 (1999) 325-331
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Report number:
  • IASSNS-HEP-98-90

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Abstract:
We consider the most general four fermion operators in QCD for two and three massless flavors and study their renormalization in the vicinity of the Fermi surface. We show that, asymptotically, the largest coupling corresponds to scalar diquark condensation. Asymptotically the direct and iterated (molecular) instanton interactions become equal. We provide simple arguments for the form of the operators that diagonalize the evolution equations. Some solutions of the flow equations exhibit instabilities arising out of purely repulsive interactions.
Note:
  • 13 pages, 2 figures Report-no: IASSNS-HEP-98-90
  • 11.30.Rd
  • 12.38.Aw
  • 12.38.Mh
  • quark: matter
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • flavor: 2
  • flavor: 3
  • renormalization group
  • diquark: condensation
  • energy: gap