Quantum Anomalies in Dense Matter

2004/05/21 by D. T. Son, A. R. Zhitnitsky · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.70.074018

published as Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 074018 · 4 pages

arxiv created 2004/05/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We consider the effects of quantum anomalies involving the baryon current for high-density matter. In the effective Lagrangian, the anomaly terms describe the interaction of three light fields: the electromagnetic photons A_mu, neutral light Nambu-Goldstone bosons (pi, eta, eta'), and the superfluid phonon. The anomaly induced interactions lead to a number of interesting phenomena which may have phenomenological consequences observable in neutron stars.

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