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Color Superfluidity and Chiral Symmetry Breakdown in Dense QCD Matter

Jiri Hosek

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9812515

Abstract

We describe the interplay of two nonperturbative phenomena which should take place in the chirally invariant deconfined phase of QCD matter at finite density and T=0: (i) Cooper-pair quark-quark ground-state condensation in appropriate channels should yield exotic sorts of color superfluidity, and (ii) quark-antiquark ground-state condensation should yield spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry. We briefly review the main recent achievements in the subject, and present the field-theory formalism which enables to deal with both above mentioned types of condensates simultaneously.

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