Quark description of nuclear matter
We discuss the role of an adjoint chiral condensate for color superconducting quark matter. Its presence leads to color-flavor locking in two-flavor quark matter. Color is broken completely as well as chiral symmetry in the two-flavor theory with coexisting adjoint quark-antiquark and antitriplet quark-quark condensates. The qualitative properties of this phase match the properties of ordinary nuclear matter without strange baryons. This complements earlier proposals by Schaefer and Wilczek for a quark description of hadronic phases. We show for a class of models with effective four-fermion interactions that adjoint chiral and diquark condensates do not compete, in the sense that simultaneous condensation occurs for sufficiently strong interactions in the adjoint chiral channel.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 40204438
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review D, Vol. 64, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.014010; Othernumber: PRVDAQ000064000001014010000001; 076111PRD; PBD: 1 Jul 2001; ISSN 0556-2821
- Publisher:
- The American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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