Published May 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Bulk viscosity due to kaons in color-flavor-locked quark matter

  • 1. Physics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 (United States)
  • 2. Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 (United States)

Description

We calculate the bulk viscosity of color-superconducting quark matter in the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase. We assume that the lightest bosons are the superfluid mode H and the kaons K0 and K+, and that there is no kaon condensate. We calculate the rate of strangeness-equilibrating processes that convert kaons into superfluid modes, and the resultant bulk viscosity. We find that for oscillations with a timescale of milliseconds, at temperatures T<1 MeV, the CFL bulk viscosity is much less than that of unpaired quark matter, but at higher temperatures the bulk viscosity of CFL matter can become larger

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 055209-055209.12
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society