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Color superconducting quark matter in compact stars

Mark Alford

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0110150

Abstract

When nuclear matter reaches a high enough density, we expect that the nucleons will overlap so much as to lose their separate identities, and merge into quark matter. In this talk I will review some theoretical expectations and speculations about quark matter, focusing on the phenomenon of quark pair condensation (color superconductivity) and its application to compact stars.

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