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Why Color-Flavor Locking is Just like Chiral Symmetry Breaking

Abstract

We review how a classification into representations of color and flavor can be used to understand the possible patterns of symmetry breaking for color superconductivity in dense quark matter. In particular, we show how for three flavors, color-flavor locking is precisely analogous to the usual pattern of chiral symmetry breaking in the QCD vacuum.Comment: 9 pages, Proc. of the Judah Eisenberg Memorial Symposium, 'Nuclear Matter, Hot and Cold', Tel Aviv, April 14 - 16, 199

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