Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-11-20
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
16 pages, 9 figures, RevTex4
Scientific paper
Recently there has been a great deal of interest in studying the properties of dense quark matter, with particular reference to diquark condensates and color superconductivity. In the present work we report calculations made for the excitations of quark matter for relatively low densities of the deconfined phase and in the absence of meson or diquark condensation. Here, we are interested in elucidating the role of "Pauli blocking", as such blocking affects the calculation vector, scalar and pseudoscalar $q\bar q$ excitations. As a byproduct of our analysis, we extend our calculations to higher densities and explore some consequences of the use of density-dependent coupling parameters for the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. (Such density-dependent parameters have been used in some of our previous work.) For our analysis made at large values of the matter density, we assume that at about 13 times nuclear matter density quark matter has only minimal nonperturbative interactions. At that high density we compare the result for hadronic current correlation functions calculated with density-dependent and density-independent NJL coupling constants. We find evidence for the use of density-dependent parameters, since the results with the density-independent constants do not go over to the perturbative description which we assume to be correct for $\rho\simeq 6\rho_c$, where $\rho_c$ is the matter density for the finite-density confinement-deconfinement transition. The use of density-dependent coupling constants in the study of diquark condensates and color superconductivity has not been explored as yet, and is a topic requiring further investigation, particularly given the strong interest in the properties of dense quark matter and color superconductivity.
He Bing
Li Hu
Shakin C. M.
Sun Qing
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