Enforced Electrical Neutrality of the Color-Flavor Locked Phase

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1 March 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

We demonstrate that quark matter in the color-flavor locked phase of QCD is rigorously electrically neutral, despite the unequal quark masses, and even in the presence of an electron chemical potential. As long as the strange quark mass and the electron chemical potential do not preclude the color-flavor locked phase, quark matter is automatically neutral. No electrons are required and none are admitted.

Keywords

ELECTRON CHEMICAL POTENTIAL
ELECTRICAL NEUTRALITY
FLAVOR LOCKED PHASE
ENFORCED ELECTRICAL
COLOR FLAVOR LOCKED
QUARK
QCD

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Published version: Physical Review Letters, 86 (16), 3492.

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