Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-02-05
Riv.Nuovo Cim.25N3:1-80,2002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
85 pages, 11 figures, v3: minor grammatical changes, some misprints corrected, Fig, 4.1 replaced. This version will appear in
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We describe the effective lagrangian approach to the color superconductivity. The effective description that arises if one considers only the leading terms in the expansion for very high densities is particularly simple. It is based on a lagrangian whose effective fermion fields are velocity-dependent; moreover strong interactions do not change quark velocity and the effective lagrangian does not contain spin matrices. All these features render the effective theory similar to the Heavy Quark Effective Theory, which is the limit of Quantum ChromoDynamics for infinite quark masses. For this reason one can refer to the effective lagrangian at high density as the High Density Effective Theory (HDET). In some cases HDET results in analytical, though approximate, relations that are particularly simple to handle. After a pedagogical introduction, several topics are considered. They include the treatment of the Color-Flavor-Locking and the 2SC model, with evaluation of the gap parameters by the Nambu-Gorkov equations, approximate dispersion laws for the gluons and calculations of the Nambu-Goldstone Bosons properties. We also discuss the effective lagrangian for the crystalline color superconductive (LOFF) phase and we give a description of the phonon field related to the breaking of the rotational and translational invariance. Finally a few astrophysical applications of color superconductivity are discussed.
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