arXiv:nucl-th/0511047·v2·Nuclear Theory
Effect of gauge-field fluctuations on the phase transition between normal and color-superconducting quark matter
Jorge L. Noronha (Frankfurt U., FIAS)🇩🇪 · Hai-cang Ren (Rockefeller U. & Hua-Zhong Normal U.)🇺🇸 · Ioannis Giannakis (Rockefeller U.)🇺🇸 · Defu Hou (Hua-Zhong Normal U.)🇨🇳 · Dirk H. Rischke (Frankfurt U.)🇩🇪
Abstract
Type-I color superconductors display a first-order phase transition due to thermal gauge-field fluctuations. We numerically evaluated the critical temperature of the first-order phase transition and the corresponding discontinuity of the diquark condensate at the critical point.
Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of 18th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Quark Matter 2005 (QM 2005), Budapest, Hungary, 4-9 Aug 2005, grant information updated, no other changes