2006/08/31 by Д. Эберт, D. Ebert, K. G. Klimenko +2
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.75.025024
published as Phys.Rev.D75:025024,2007 · 18 pages, 9 figures; version accepted for publication in PRD
arxiv created 2006/11/17 · openalex publication_date 2007/01/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The spectrum of meson and diquark excitations in cold color superconducting (2SC) quark matter is investigated under local color and electric neutrality constraints with \ensuremathβ equilibrium. A two-flavored Nambu-Jona-Lasinio--type model including baryon \ensuremathμB, color \ensuremathμ8, and electric \ensuremathμQ chemical potentials is used. The contribution from free electrons to the free energy is added to take into account the \ensuremathβ equilibrium. The sensitivity of the model to the tuning of the interaction constants in the diquark (H) and quark-antiquark (G) channels is examined for two different parametrization schemes by choosing the ratio H/G to be 3/4 and 1, respectively. The gapless neutral color superconductivity is realized at H=3G/4, and the gapped neutral color superconductivity at H=G. It is shown that color and electrical neutrality together with \ensuremathβ equilibrium lead to a strong mass splitting within the pion isotriplet in the 2SC phase (both gapped and gapless), in contrast with non-neutral matter. The \ensuremathπ- and \ensuremathσ-meson masses are evaluated to be \ensuremath∼300 MeV. It is also shown that the properties of the physical SU(2)c-singlet diquark excitation in the 2SC ground state vary for different parametrization schemes. Thus, for H=3G/4 one finds a heavy resonance with mass \ensuremath∼1100 MeV in the non-neutral (gapped) case, whereas, if neutrality is imposed, a stable diquark with mass \ensuremath∼|\ensuremathμQ|\ensuremath∼200 MeV appears in the gapless 2SC environment. For a stronger attraction in the diquark channel (H=G), there is again a resonance (with the mass \ensuremath∼300 MeV) in the neutral gapped 2SC phase. Hence, the existence of the stable massive SU(2)c-singlet diquark excitation is a new peculiarity of the gapless 2SC. In addition, the behavior of the diquark mass in vacuum, i.e., at \ensuremathμB=0, as a function of H has been investigated.