Continuity of quark and hadron matter

Citation
T. Schafer et F. Wilczek, Continuity of quark and hadron matter, PHYS REV L, 82(20), 1999, pp. 3956-3959
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
82
Issue
20
Year of publication
1999
Pages
3956 - 3959
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(19990517)82:20<3956:COQAHM>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We review, clarify, and extend the notion of color-flavor locking. We prese nt evidence that for three degenerate flavors the qualitative features of t he color-flavor locked state, reliably predicted fur high density, match th e expected features of hadronic matter at low density. This provides, in pa rticular, a controlled, weak-coupling realization of confinement and chiral symmetry breaking in this (slight) idealization of QCD.