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Meissner masses in the gCFL phase of QCD
We calculate the Meissner masses of gluons in neutral three-flavor color
superconducting matter for finite strange quark mass. In the CFL phase the
eissner masses are slowly varying function of the strange quark mass. For large
strange quark mass, in the so called gCFL phase, the Meissner masses of gluons
with colors and 8 become imaginary, indicating an instability.Comment: New Fig. 1 shows that also the masses of the gluons 3 and 8 are
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Critical Endpoint and Inverse Magnetic Catalysis for Finite Temperature and Density Quark Matter in a Magnetic Background
In this article we study chiral symmetry breaking for quark matter in a
magnetic background, , at finite temperature and quark chemical
potential, , making use of the Ginzburg-Landau effective action formalism.
As a microscopic model to compute the effective action we use the renormalized
quark-meson model. Our main goal is to study the evolution of the critical
endpoint, , as a function of the magnetic field strength, and
investigate on the realization of inverse magnetic catalysis at finite chemical
potential. We find that the phase transition at zero chemical potential is
always of the second order; for small and intermediate values of ,
moves towards small , while for larger it moves
towards moderately larger values of . Our results are in agreement with
the inverse magnetic catalysis scenario at finite chemical potential and not
too large values of the magnetic field, while at larger direct magnetic
catalysis sets in.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Comparing electroweak data with a decoupling model
Present data, both from direct Higgs search and from analysis of electroweak
data, are starting to become rather restrictive on the possible values for the
mass of the standard model Higgs. We discuss a new physics scenario based on a
model with decoupling (both in a linear and in a non linear version) showing
how it allows for an excellent fit to the present values of the
parameters and how it widens the allowed ranges for the Higgs mass (thought as
elementary in the linear version, or as composite in the non linear one).Comment: 10 pages, 3 Figures Late
Acid Precipitation and Catastrophes in Forest Dynamics: A Conceptual Framework
The focus of this paper will be on the intrinsic nonlinear nature of the vegetation response to acid precipitation, which plays a principal role in causing catastrophes in forest dynamics. We contemplate three possible mechanisms of forest disruption from acidic deposition: (i) through direct effects upon vegetation (such as physical damage to tissues), (ii) through increased soil acidity, which inter alia entails the release of toxic amounts of aluminum and manganese, (iii) through accumulation in the tree biomass of excessive amounts of nutrients, which may be harmful to the plants. We analyze the three corresponding modes of forest decline and demonstrate, within the framework of catastrophe theory, that the second and third mechanisms give rise to a so-called fold catastrophe
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