Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-04-15
Phys.Rev.Lett. 97 (2006) 122301
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Version to appear in PRL. Typos corrected and several references added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.122301
We investigate the effects of an external magnetic field in the gluon dynamics of a color superconductor with three massless quark flavors. In the framework of gluon mean-field theory at asymptotic densities, we show that the long-range component $\widetilde{H}$ of the external magnetic field that penetrates the CFL phase produces an instability when its strength becomes larger than the Meissner mass of the charged gluons. As a consequence, the magnetic field causes the formation of a vortex state characterized by the condensation of charged gluons and the creation of magnetic flux tubes. Inside the flux tubes the magnetic field is stronger than the applied one. This antiscreening effect is connected to the anomalous magnetic moment of the gluon field. We suggest how this same mechanism could serve to remove the chromomagnetic instabilities existing in gapless color superconductivity.
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