Eur. Phys. J. A (2016) 52: 226
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16226-7

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

From ultra-dense QCD towards NICA densities: Color-flavor locking and other color superconductors

Mathematical Sciences and STAG Research Centre, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK

^* e-mail: a.schmitt@soton.ac.uk

Received: 13 October 2015
Accepted: 31 January 2016
Published online: 16 August 2016

Abstract

At asymptotically large densities and sufficiently low temperatures, quark matter is a color superconductor in the color-flavor locked phase. I present a brief discussion of this phase and of possible other color superconductors that may appear at densities reached at NICA and in the interior of compact stars.