Color Superconducting Gap in Schwinger-Dyson Equation and Nonlocal Gauge Fixing

We solve Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equation for the color superconducting (CS) gap in nonlocal gauge which justifies the ladder approximation in subleading order calculation. The gap prefactor increases about 1.6 times to the leading order gap determined in Landau gauge.Comment: 5 pages, 1 fig., a talk at 'Finite Density QCD at Nara', to appear in Prog. Theor. Phy

Light Scalar Decay in Diquark Chiral Effective Theory

We calculate the decay rate of light scalar mesons, using a diquark chiral effective theory, recently proposed to describe exotic hadrons. In the effective theory the light scalar mesons are postulated to be bound states of diquark and anti-diquark. We find our results are in good agreement with experimental data. The axial couplings of diquarks with pions and kaons are found to be quite small and the perturbation is reliable. It shows that the diquark picture captures the correct physics of light scalar mesons.Comment: 9pages, 4figures, RevTeX

Strangeness Equilibration at GSI Energies

We develop the notion of "broad-band equilibration" in heavy-ion processes involving dense medium. Given density-dependent \Km-masses we show that the equilibration at GSI energies claimed to hold in previous treatments down to $\sim \rho_0/4$, can be replaced by a broad-band equilibration in which the \Km-meson and hyperons are produced in an essentially constant ratio independent of density. There are experimental indications that this also holds for AGS energies. We then proceed to argue that {\it both} $K^+$ and $K^-$ must get lighter in dense medium at some density $\rho >\rho_0$ due to the decoupling of the vector mesons. As a consequence, kaon condensation in compact stars could take place {\it before} chiral restoration since the sum of bare quark masses in the kaon should lie below $\mu_e$. Another consequence of the decoupling vector interactions is that the quasi-particle picture involving (quasi)quarks, presumably ineffective at low densities, becomes more appropriate at higher densities as chiral restoration is approached.Comment: 16 pages, latex with 2 eps figures. Abstract rewritten and references update

Broad Band Equilibration of Strangeness

We develop the "broad band equilibration" scenario for kaon productions at GSI energies with in-medium effects.Comment: 4 pages, latex with 2 eps figure, a talk in QM200

Higher order corrections to Color superconducting gaps

We find a (nonlocal) gauge where the wavefunction renormalization constant does not get any corrections for all momenta in the hard-dense loop approximation. In this gauge, we solve the Schwinger-Dyson equations for the diquark condensate in dense QCD to calculate the Cooper pair gap. We determine not only the exponent but also the prefactor of the gap in a gauge independent way. We find that the higher order corrections increase the gap only by about 1.6 times to the leading order gap at Coulomb gauge.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX, Minor modification

Scaling Of Chiral Lagrangians And Landau Fermi Liquid Theory For Dense Hadronic Matter

We discuss the Fermi-liquid properties of hadronic matter derived from a chiral Lagrangian field theory in which Brown-Rho (BR) scaling is incorporated. We identify the BR scaling as a contribution to Landau's Fermi liquid fixed-point quasiparticle parameter from "heavy" isoscalar meson degrees of freedom that are integrated out from a low-energy effective Lagrangian. We show that for the vector (convection) current, the result obtained in the chiral Lagrangian approach agrees precisely with that obtained in the semi-phenomenological Landau-Migdal approach. This precise agreement allows one to determine the Landau parameter that enters in the effective nucleon mass in terms of the constant that characterizes BR scaling. When applied to the weak axial current, however, these two approaches differ in a subtle way. While the difference is small numerically, the chiral Lagrangian approach implements current algebra and low-energy theorems associated with the axial response that the Landau method misses and hence is expected to be more predictive.Comment: 39 pages, latex with 4 eps figure, modified addresses and reference

Fluctuations In ``BR-Scaled'' Chiral Lagrangians

We develop arguments for "mapping" the effective chiral Lagrangian whose parameters are given by "BR scaling" to a Landau Fermi-liquid fixed-point theory for nuclear matter in describing fluctuations in various flavor (e.g., strangeness) directions. We use for this purpose the effective Lagrangian used by Furnstahl, Tang and Serot that incorporates the trace anomaly of QCD in terms of a light-quark (quarkonium) degree of freedom with the heavy (gluonium) degree of freedom integrated out. The large anomalous dimension $d_{an}\approx 5/3$ for the scalar field found by Furnstahl et al to be needed for a correct description of nuclear matter is interpreted as an indication for a strong-coupling regime and the ground state given by the BR-scaled parameters is suggested as the background around which fluctuations can be rendered weak so that mean-field approximation is reliable. We construct a simple model with BR scaled parameters that provides a satisfactory description of the properties of matter at normal nuclear matter density. Given this, fluctuations around the BR scaled background are dominated by tree diagrams. Our reasoning relies heavily on recent developments in the study of nucleon and kaon properties in normal and dense nuclear matter, e.g., nucleon and kaon flows in heavy-ion processes, kaonic atoms, and kaon condensation in dense compact-star matter.Comment: 33 pages, Latex, 5 Postscript figure

Thermodynamic properties of effective chiral Lagrangians with Brown-Rho scaling

We show that effective chiral Lagrangians endowed with Brown-Rho scaling can be mapped to Landau Fermi-liquid fixed point theory in a way consistent with general constraints following from thermodynamics. This provides a unified scheme to treat, starting from normal nuclear matter, hadronic matter under extreme conditions that is encountered in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and in the interior of compact stars.Comment: 13 pages, Latex, no figure