Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-02-23
Phys.Rept. 407 (2005) 205-376
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Habilitation thesis, 193 pages, 63 figures; v2: minor changes, version to appear in Physics Reports
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physrep.2004.11.004
Investigations of deconfined quark matter within NJL-type models are reviewed, focusing on the regime of low temperatures and ``moderate'' densities, which is not accessible by perturbative QCD. Central issue is the interplay between chiral symmetry restoration and the formation of color superconducting phases. In order to lay a solid ground for this analysis, we begin with a rather detailed discussion of two and three-flavor NJL models and their phase structure, neglecting the possibility of diquark pairing in a first step. An important aspect of this part is a comparison with the MIT bag model. The NJL model is also applied to investigate the possibility of absolutely stable strange quark matter. In the next step the formalism is extended to include diquark condensates. We discuss the role and mutual influence of several conventional and less conventional quark-antiquark and diquark condensates. As a particularly interesting example, we analyze a spin-1 diquark condensate as a possible pairing channel for those quarks which are left over from the standard spin-0 condensate. For three-flavor systems, we find that a self-consistent calculation of the strange quark mass, together with the diquark condensates, is crucial for a realistic description of the 2SC-CFL phase transition. We also study the effect of neutrality constraints which are of relevance for compact stars. Both, homogeneous and mixed, neutral phases are constructed. Although neutrality constraints generally tend to disfavor the 2SC phase we find that this phase is again stabilized by the large values of the dynamical strange quark mass which follow from the self-consistent treatment. Finally, we combine our solutions with existing hadronic equations of state to investigate the existence of quark matter cores in neutron stars.
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