DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2003-10003-9
Coexistence of color superconductivity and chiral symmetry breaking within the NJL model
D. Blaschke1, 2, M.K. Volkov2 and V.L. Yudichev21 Fachbereich Physik, Universität Rostock, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
2 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russian Federation
yudichev@thsun1.jinr.ru
(Received: 3 January 2003 / Published online: 24 April 2003)
Abstract
The phase diagram for quark matter is investigated
within a simple Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model without vector
correlations. It is found that the phase structure in the
temperature-density plane depends sensitively on the
parametrization of the model. We present two schemes of
parametrization of the model where, within the first one, a
first-order phase transition from a phase with broken chiral symmetry to
a color superconducting phase for temperatures below the triple
point at
Tt= 55 MeV occurs, whereas for the second one a
second-order phase transition for temperatures below
Tt = 7 MeV is
found. In the latter case, there is also a coexistence phase of
broken chiral symmetry with color superconductivity, which is a new
finding within this class of models. Possible consequences for the
phenomenology of the QCD phase transition at high baryon densities
are discussed.
11.30.Rd - Chiral symmetries.
12.38.Lg - Other nonperturbative calculations.
11.10.Wx - Finite-temperature field theory.
25.75.Nq - Quark deconfinement, quark-gluon plasma production, and phase transitions.
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