A First order transition to, and then parity violation in, a color superconductor
Nov, 1998Citations per year
Abstract:
In cold, dense quark matter, quarks of different flavor can form Cooper pairs which are anti-triplets under color and have total spin J=0. The transition to a phase where strange quarks condense with either up or down quarks is driven first order by the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. At densities sufficiently high to (effectively) restore the axial U(1) symmetry, then relative to the ordinary vacuum, the condensation of up with down quarks (effectively) breaks parity spontaneously.- quark: matter
- color
- superconductivity
- quantum chromodynamics
- critical phenomena
- parity: violation
- H baryon
- symmetry: U(1)
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