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Quark droplets stability induced by external magnetic field

arXiv:hep-ph/0305149 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2003.08.021

Abstract

The influence of a constant homogeneous external magnetic field on the formation and stability of quark droplets is investigated within a simple Nambu -- Jona-Lasinio model by using a thermodynamic approach. For a vanishing magnetic field stable quark droplets, which are schematically the bags of massless quarks, are allowed to exist only at , where is the quark coupling constant, , and is the value of the coupling constant above which chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken down. On the other hand, a nonvanishing external magnetic field can induce the stability of quark droplets so that they may exist even at . In this case, depending on the value of , quark droplets are composed either of massive or massless quarks.

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