Qualitons at high density

In the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase of the QCD superconductor we show th at baryons behave as qualitons (called "superqualitons") with quantum numbe rs B = (1 mod 2)/3, S = 1/2 and Y = B. An intriguing possibility implied by this identification is that light baryonic modes in the form of superquali tons could be excited below the (color) superconducting gap in the CFL phas e, a novel phenomenon foreign to normal superconductors. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.