Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-01-21
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 094033
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
27 pages, 8 figures, minor revisions
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.094033
We study instanton effects in QCD at very high baryon density. In this regime instantons are suppressed by a large power of $(\Lambda_{QCD}/\mu)$, where $\Lambda_{QCD}$ is the QCD scale parameter and $\mu$ is the baryon chemical potential. Instantons are nevertheless important because they contribute to several physical observables that vanish to all orders in perturbative QCD. We study, in particular, the chiral condensate and its contribution $m_{GB}^2\sim m<\bar{\psi}\psi>$ to the masses of Goldstone bosons in the CFL phase of QCD with $N_f=3$ flavors. We find that at densities $\rho\sim (5-10) \rho_0$, where $\rho_0$ is the density of nuclear matter, the result is dominated by large instantons and subject to considerable uncertainties. We suggest that these uncertainties can be addressed using lattice calculations of the instanton density and the pseudoscalar diquark mass in QCD with two colors. We study the topological susceptibility and Witten-Veneziano type mass relations in both $N_c=2$ and $N_c=3$ QCD.
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