15 research outputs found
On gap equations and color-flavor locking in cold dense QCD with three massless flavors
The superconductivity in cold dense QCD with three massless flavors is
analyzed in the framework of the Schwinger-Dyson equation. The set of two
coupled gap equations for the color antitriplet, flavor antitriplet
(bar{3},bar{3}) and the color sextet, flavor sextet (6,6) order parameters is
derived. It is shown that the antitriplet-antitriplet gives the dominant
contribution to the color-flavor locked order parameter, while the
sextet-sextet is small but nonzero.Comment: 9 pages, no figures, REVTe
The effective potential of composite diquark fields and the spectrum of resonances in dense QCD
The effective potential of composite diquark fields responsible for color
symmetry breaking in cold very dense QCD, in which long-range interactions
dominate, is derived. The spectrum of excitations and the universality class of
this dynamics are described.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure (new), REVTeX. The latest version to appear in
Phys. Lett. B. References added, discussion improve
ACD estimation of the S parameter revisited
The analytic continuation by duality (ACD) technique has been used to
estimate the electroweak S parameter in technicolor models. In this letter, we
investigate the reliability of this method by applying it to some toy models
with known spectra. We find that in most instances the technique cannot be
trusted to give a reliable result.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX, 2 postscript figures. Uses seceqn.sty and epsfig.st
Scalar Mesons in Holographic Walking Technicolor
We study the spectrum of scalar mesons in the holographic dual of walking
technicolor, obtained by embedding D7 - anti-D7 probe branes in a certain type
IIB background. The scalar mesons arise from fluctuations of the probe
techniflavour branes and complement the (axial-)vector meson spectra that we
investigated in earlier work. By explicitly finding the spectrum of scalar
masses, we show that the nonsupersymmetric D7 - anti-D7 embedding is stable
with respect to such fluctuations. Interestingly, it turns out that the mass
splitting between the scalar and vector meson spectra is of subleading order in
a small parameter expansion. It is noteworthy that this near-degeneracy may not
be entirely due to a small amount of supersymmetry breaking and thus could
indicate the presence of some other (approximate) symmetry in the problem.Comment: 25 pages; minor improvements, references added, journal versio
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Research in Particle Theory
In the test particle approximation, the scattering amplitude for two-particle scattering in (2+1)-dimensional Chern-Simons-Witten gravity and supergravity was computed and compared to the corresponding metric solutions. The formalism was then extended to the exact gauge theoretic treatment of the two-particle scattering problem and compared to 't Hooft's results from the metric approach. We have studied dynamical symmetry breaking in 2+1 dimensional field theories. We have analyzed strong Extended Technicolor (ETC) models where the ETC coupling is close to a critical value. There are effective scalar fields in each of the theories. We have worked our how such scalar particles can be produced and how they decay. The {phi}{sup 4} field theory was investigated in the Schrodinger representation. The critical behavior was extracted in an arbitrary number of dimensions in second order of a systematic truncation approximation. The correlation exponent agrees with known values within a few percent
De Sitter space in gauge/gravity duality
We investigate gauge/gravity duality for gauge theories in de Sitter space. More precisely, we study a five-dimensional consistent truncation of type IIB supergravity, which encompasses a wide variety of gravity duals of strongly coupled gauge theories, including the Maldacena–Nunez solution and its walking deformations. We find several solutions of the 5d theory with dS4 spacetime and nontrivial profiles for (some of) the scalars along the fifth (radial) direction. In the process, we prove that one of the equations of motion becomes dependent on the others, for nontrivial warp factor. This dependence reduces the number of field equations and, thus, turns out to be crucial for the existence of solutions with (A)dS4 spacetime. Finally, we comment on the implications of our dS4 solutions for building gravity duals of Glueball Inflation
Probing Bosonic Stars with Atomic Clocks
Dark matter could potentially manifest itself in the form of asymmetric dark stars. In this paper we entertain the possibility of probing such asymmetric bosonic dark matter stars by the use of atomic clocks. If the dark sector connects to the standard model sector via a Higgs or photon portal, the interiors of boson stars that are in a Bose-Einstein condensate state can change the values of physical constants that control the timing of atomic clock devices. Dilute asymmetric dark matter boson stars passing through the Earth can induce frequency shifts that can be observed in separated Earth-based atomic clocks. This gives the opportunity to probe a class of dark matter candidates that for the moment cannot be detected with any different conventional method.Dark Matter could potentially manifest itself in the form of asymmetric dark stars. In this paper we entertain the possibility of probing such asymmetric bosonic dark matter stars by the use of atomic clocks. If the dark sector connects to the standard model sector via a Higgs or photon portal, the interior of boson stars that are in a Bose-Einstein condensate state can change the values of physical constants that control the timing of atomic clock devices. Dilute asymmetric dark matter boson stars passing through the Earth can induce frequency shifts that can be observed in separated Earth based atomic clocks. This gives the opportunity to probe a class of dark matter candidates that for the moment cannot be detected with any different conventional method