Effect of gauge-field fluctuations on the phase transition between normal and color-superconducting quark matter
arXiv:nucl-th/0511047 · doi:10.1556/APH.27.2006.2-3.28
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.
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