Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2008-06-02
J.Phys.G35:115007,2008
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
23 pages, 8 figures, v2: references added; minor rephrasings in the conclusions; version to appear in J. Phys. G
Scientific paper
10.1088/0954-3899/35/11/115007
Color-flavor locked (CFL) quark matter at high densities is a color superconductor, which spontaneously breaks baryon number and chiral symmetry. Its low-energy thermodynamic and transport properties are therefore dominated by the H (superfluid) boson, and the octet of pseudoscalar pseudo-Goldstone bosons of which the neutral kaon is the lightest. We study the CFL-K^0 phase, in which the stress induced by the strange quark mass causes the kaons to condense, and there is an additional ultra-light "K^0" Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of isospin. We compute the bulk viscosity of matter in the CFL-K^0 phase, which arises from the beta-equilibration processes K^0<->H+H and K^0+H<->H. We find that the bulk viscosity varies as T^7, unlike the CFL phase where it is exponentially Boltzmann-suppressed by the kaon's energy gap. However, in the temperature range of relevance for r-mode damping in compact stars, the bulk viscosity in the CFL-K^0 phase turns out to be even smaller than in the uncondensed CFL phase, which already has a bulk viscosity much smaller than all other known color-superconducting quark phases.
Alford Mark G.
Braby Matt
Schmitt Andreas
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