scholarly journals Color-superconductivity and inhomogeneous chiral symmetry breaking in isospin-asymmetric quark matter

Author(s):  
Danieal Nowakowski ◽  
Stefano Carignano
2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (32) ◽  
pp. 2255-2264 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. A. Battistel ◽  
G. Krein

Chiral symmetry breaking at finite baryon density is usually discussed in the context of quark matter, i.e. a system of deconfined quarks. Many systems like stable nuclei and neutron stars however have quarks confined within nucleons. In this paper we construct a Fermi sea of three-quark nucleon clusters and investigate the change of the quark condensate as a function of baryon density. We study the effect of quark clustering on the in-medium quark condensate and compare results with the traditional approach of modeling hadronic matter in terms of a Fermi sea of deconfined quarks.


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