The axial anomaly and the phases of dense QCD

Details The axial anomaly and the phases of dense QCD The axial anomaly and the phases of dense QCD

2008-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/0806.2706v1

J.Phys.G35:104021,2008

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

8 pages, Proceedings of Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur

Scientific paper

10.1088/0954-3899/35/10/104021

The QCD axial anomaly, by coupling the chiral condensate and BCS pairing fields of quarks in dense matter, leads to a new critical point in the QCD phase diagram \cite{HTYB,chiral2}, which at sufficiently low temperature should terminate the line of phase transitions between chirally broken hadronic matter and color superconducting quark matter. The critical point indicates that matter at low temperature should cross over smoothly from the hadronic to the quark phase, as suggested earlier on the basis of symmetry. We review here the arguments, based on a general Ginzburg-Landau effective Lagrangian, for the existence of the new critical point, as well as discuss possible connections between the QCD phase structure and the BEC-BCS crossover in ultracold trapped atomic fermion systems at unitarity. and implications for the presence of quark matter in neutron stars.

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