Patterns of Symmetry Breaking in QCD at High Baryon Density

Details Patterns of Symmetry Breaking in QCD at High Baryon Density Patterns of Symmetry Breaking in QCD at High Baryon Density

1999-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9909574v3

Nucl.Phys. B575 (2000) 269-284

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

23 pages, revtex, erratum added

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00063-8

We study the structure of QCD at very large baryon density for an arbitrary number of flavors $N_f$. We provide evidence that for any number of flavors larger than $N_f=2$ chiral symmetry remains broken at asymptotically large chemical potential. For $N_c=N_f=3$, chiral symmetry breaking follows the standard pattern $SU(3)_L\times SU(3)_R\to SU(3)$, but for $N_f>3$ unusual patterns emerge. We study the case $N_f=3$ in more detail and calculate the magnitude of the chiral order parameters $<\bar\psi\psi>$ and $<(\bar\psi\psi)^2>$ in perturbative QCD. We show that, asymptotically, $<\bar\psi\psi>^{1/3}$ is much smaller than $<(\bar\psi\psi)^2>^{1/6}$. The result can be understood in terms of an approximate discrete symmetry.

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