Illuminating Dense Quark Matter

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2001-07-19

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0107211v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 88 (2002) 042003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.042003

We imagine shining light on a lump of cold dense quark matter, in the CFL phase and therefore a transparent insulator. We calculate the angles of reflection and refraction, and the intensity of the reflected and refracted light. Although the only potentially observable context for this phenomenon (reflection of light from and refraction of light through an illuminated quark star) is unlikely to be realized, our calculation casts new light on the old idea that confinement makes the QCD vacuum behave as if filled with a condensate of color-magnetic monopoles.

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