Confined monopoles induced by quantum effects in dense QCD

Journal Article · Fri Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.83.085005· OSTI ID:21541525

Eto, Minoru ^[1]; Nitta, Muneto ^[2]; Yamamoto, Naoki ^[3]

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1. Mathematical Physics Laboratory, RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama 351-0198 (Japan)
2. Department of Physics, and Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521 (Japan)
3. Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1550 (United States)

We analytically show that mesonic bound states of confined monopoles appear inside a non-Abelian vortex string in massless three-flavor QCD at large quark chemical potential {mu}. The orientational modes CP{sup 2} in the internal space of a vortex is described by the low-energy effective world-sheet theory. Mesons of confined monopoles are dynamically generated as bound states of kinks by the quantum effects in the effective theory. The mass of monopoles is shown to be an exponentially soft scale M{approx}{Delta}exp[-c({mu}/{Delta}){sup 2}], with the color superconducting gap {Delta} and some constant c. A possible quark-monopole duality between the hadron phase and the color superconducting phase is also discussed.

• OSTI ID: 21541525
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 83, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.085005; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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