scholarly journals Chiral symmetry breaking, color superconductivity and quark matter phase diagram: a variational approach

2001 ◽  
Vol 679 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 597-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiranmaya Mishra ◽  
Jitendra C. Parikh
Keyword(s):  
Phase Diagram ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Chiral Symmetry ◽  
Quark Matter ◽  
Variational Approach ◽  
Chiral Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Color Superconductivity ◽  
Matter Phase

Quark Clustering and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Nuclear Matter

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (32) ◽  
pp. 2255-2264 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. A. Battistel ◽  
G. Krein
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Nuclear Matter ◽  
Chiral Symmetry ◽  
Quark Matter ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Chiral Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Quark Condensate ◽  
Baryon Density ◽  
Hadronic Matter

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.

scholarly journals Phase transitions for SU(N) gauge theories with arbitrary number of flavors

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (34) ◽  
pp. 1550203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Jora
Keyword(s):  
Phase Diagram ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Chiral Symmetry ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Chiral Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Small Region ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Strong Confinement

We study the phase diagram of an [Formula: see text] gauge theory in terms of the number of colors [Formula: see text] and flavors [Formula: see text] with emphasis on the confinement and chiral symmetry breaking phases. We argue that as opposed to SUSY QCD there is a small region in the [Formula: see text] plane where the theory has the chiral symmetry broken but it is unconfined. The possibility of a new phase with strong confinement and chiral symmetry breaking is suggested.

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