Chiral and Color-superconducting Phase Transitions with Vector Interaction in a Simple Model

Details Chiral and Color-superconducting Phase Transitions with Vector Interaction in a Simple Model Chiral and Color-superconducting Phase Transitions with Vector Interaction in a Simple Model

2002-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0207255v3

Prog.Theor.Phys. 108 (2002) 929-951

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

27 pages, 27 eps figures. version to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys. Some references are added with comments on the coexistence p

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We investigate effects of the vector interaction on chiral and color superconducting (CSC) phase transitions at finite density and temperature in a simple Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. It is shown that the repulsive density-density interaction coming from the vector term, which is present in the effective chiral models but has been omitted, enhances the competition between the chiral symmerty breaking (chiSB) and CSC phase transition, and thereby makes the thermodynamic potential have a shallow minimum over a wide range of values of the correlated chiral and CSC order parameters. We find that when the vector coupling is increased, the first order transition between the chiSB and CSC phases becomes weaker, and the coexisting phase in which both the chiral and color-gauge symmetry are dynamically broken comes to exisit over a wider range of the density and temperature. We also show that there can exist two endpoints, which are tricritical points in the chiral limit, along the critical line of the first order transition in some range of values of the vector coupling. Although our analysis is based on a simple model, the nontrivial interplay between the chiSB and CSC phases induced by the vector interaction is expected to be a universal phenomenon and might give a clue to understanding results obtained with two-color QCD on the lattice.

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