Inhomogeneous color superconductivity and the cooling of compact stars

Abstract

In this talk I discuss the inhomogeneous (LOFF) color superconductive phases of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). In particular, I show the effect of a core of LOFF phase on the cooling of a compact star.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, uses aiproc style. Talk given at "Quark confinement and the hadron spectrum", Ponta Delgada, Acores, Portugal, 2-7 September 2006