Gluon Vortices and Induced Magnetic Field in Compact Stars

Abstract

The natural candidates for the realization of color superconductivity are the extremely dense cores of compact stars, many of which have very large magnetic fields, especially the so-called magnetars. In this paper we discuss how a color superconducting core can serve to generate and enhance the stellar magnetic field without appealing to a magnetohydrodynamic dynamo mechanism.

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the VII Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications. Cusco (Peru) June 2007