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Scalar-isoscalar excitation in dense quark matter

Prashanth Jaikumar, Ismail Zahed

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0209249

Abstract

We study the spectrum of scalar-isoscalar excitations in the color-flavor locked phase of dense quark matter. The sigma meson in this phase appears as a four-quark state (of diquark and anti-diquark) with a well-defined mass and extremely small width, as a consequence of it's small coupling to two pions. The quark particle/hole degrees of freedom also contribute significantly to the correlator just above the threshold 2Δwhere Δis the superconducting gap.

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