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New phases in CFL quark matter

Andrei Kryjevski, David B. Kaplan, Thomas Schaefer

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0404290

Abstract

We consider order αs corrections to the squared masses of the pseudo-Goldstone excitations about the ground state of dense quark matter. We show that these contributions tend to destabilize the vacuum, leading to a surprisingly complex phase structure for quark matter as a function of quark mass, even for small αs. In particular we find two new phases of CFL quark matter possibly relevant for the real world, for which the QCD angle theta-bar equals pi/2.

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