The Fate of Hadron Masses in Dense Matter: Hidden Local Symmetry and Color Flavor Locking

Abstract

The notion that hadron masses scale according to the scaling of the quark condensate in hadronic matter, partly supported by a number of observations in finite nuclei, can be interpreted in terms of Harada-Yamawaki's ``vector manifestation" (VM) of chiral symmetry. In this scenario, near chiral restoration, the vector meson masses drop to zero {\it in the chiral limit} with vanishing widths. This scenario appears to differ from the standard linear sigma model scenario. We exploit a link between the VM and color-flavor locking inferred by us from lattice data on quark number susceptibility (QNS) measured as a function of temperature to suggest that local flavor symmetry gets mapped to color gauge symmetry at the chiral phase transition.

Comments: 5 pages, revised with title change, sharpened arguments and updated references