Color superconductivity in the strong-coupling regime of Landau gauge QCD

D. Nickel; J. Wambach; R. Alkofer

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.114028

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Color superconductivity in the strong-coupling regime of Landau gauge QCD

D. Nickel, J. Wambach, R. Alkofer

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.114028 · Physical Review D

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Abstract

The chirally unbroken and the color-superconducting 2SC and CFL phases are investigated in the chiral limit within a Dyson-Schwinger approach for the quark propagator in QCD. The hierarchy of Green’s functions is truncated such that at vanishing density known results for the vacuum and at asymptotically high densities the corresponding weak-coupling expressions are recovered. The anomalous dimensions of the gap functions are analytically calculated. Based on the quark propagator the phase structure is studied, and results for the gap functions, occupation numbers, coherence lengths, and pressure differences are given and compared with the corresponding expressions in the weak-coupling regime. At moderate chemical potentials the quasiparticle pairing gaps are several times larger than the extrapolated weak-coupling results.