Published December 26, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

θ-parameter in 2 color QCD at finite baryon and isospin density

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1 (Canada)

Description

We use 2-color QCD as a model to study the effects of simultaneous presence of the so-called θ parameter, chemical potentials for baryon number, μB and for isospin charge, μI. We pay special attention to θ, μB, μI dependence of different vacuum condensates, including chiral and diquark condensates, as well as the gluon condensate, , and the topological susceptibility. We find that two phase transitions of the second order will occur when θ relaxes from θ=2π to θ=0, if μ is of order of the pion mass, mπ. We demonstrate that the transition to the superfluid phase at θ=π occurs at a much lower chemical potential than at θ=0. We also show that the strong θ dependence present near θ=π in vacuum (Dashen's phenomenon), becomes smoothed out in the superfluid phase. Finally, we comment on the relevance of this study for the real world with Nc=3

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.09.027;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0508004v1;
PII
S0550-3213(05)00822-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
731
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 309-334
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.