Kaon condensation in a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model at high density
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
We demonstrate a fully self-consistent microscopic realization of a kaon-condensed color-flavor locked state (CFLK{sup 0}) within the context of a mean-field Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model at high density. The properties of this state are shown to be consistent with the QCD low-energy effective theory once the proper gauge neutrality conditions are satisfied, and a simple matching procedure is used to compute the pion decay constant, which agrees with the perturbative QCD result. The NJL model is used to compare the energies of the CFLK{sup 0} state to the parity even CFL state, and to determine locations of the metal/insulator transition to a phase with gapless fermionic excitations in the presence of a nonzero hypercharge chemical potential and a nonzero strange quark mass. The transition points are compared with results derived previously via effective theories and with partially self-consistent NJL calculations. We find that the qualitative physics does not change, but that the transitions are slightly lower.
- OSTI ID:
- 20713846
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 72, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.094032; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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