Published December 2, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Superconducting quark matter in the Chromodielectric Model

  • 1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, 24210-340 Niteroi (Brazil)
  • 2. Centro de Fisica Computacional, Universidade de Coimbra, P-3004-516 Coimbra (Portugal)
  • 3. Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Coimbra, P-3004-516 Coimbra (Portugal)
  • 4. Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 01405-900 Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Description

In this work we study the strange quark matter in an extended version of the Chromodielectric Model (CDM) with a BCS quark pairing implemented, and analyze the superconducting color flavor locked (CFL) phase. We compare the equation of state and the stability of the strange quark matter from QCD in the CFL phase with the superconducting version of the CDM. In the CDM there is a confining potential which originates a dynamical bag constant in the sense that its value depends on the density. Our results indicate that the inclusion in the energy density of the pairing quark interaction allows for an absolutely stable quark matter state even for large potential energies, preventing the metastability of quark matter found in the CDM at high densities

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
739
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 488-490
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
9. hadron physics and 7. relativistic aspects of nuclear physics
Acronym
Joint meeting on QCD and QCP
Dates
28 Mar - 3 Apr 2004
Place
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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(c) 2004 American Institute of Physics