Spontaneous superfluid current generation in the kaon condensed color flavor locked phase at nonzero strange quark mass

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2008 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.77.014018· OSTI ID:21035701

Kryjevski, Andrei ^[1]

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1. Indiana University, Nuclear Theory Center, Bloomington, Indiana 47408 (United States)

We find that for a large enough strange quark mass, m{sub s}{sup 2}/4{mu}{delta}>2/3(1-0.023) ({mu} is the quark number chemical potential, {delta} is the superconducting gap), the kaon condensed color flavor locked (CFL) phase of asymptotically dense strongly interacting 3 flavor quark matter is unstable with respect to spontaneous generation of currents of Nambu Goldstone bosons due to spontaneous breaking of baryon number symmetry and hypercharge symmetry in the CFLK{sup 0} ground state. The total baryon and hypercharge currents vanish in the ground state. We find that CFLK{sup 0} and the new state are separated by a first order phase transition. The result is derived in the mean field approximation of high density effective theory with electromagnetic interactions turned off.

• OSTI ID: 21035701
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 77, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.014018; (c) 2008 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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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
APPROXIMATIONS
BARYON NUMBER
BARYONS
COLOR MODEL
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
FLAVOR MODEL
GOLDSTONE BOSONS
GROUND STATES
HYPERCHARGE
KAONS
MEAN-FIELD THEORY
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
POTENTIALS
QUARK MATTER
REST MASS
S QUARKS
SUPERFLUIDITY
SYMMETRY