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Post-inflationary thermalization with hadronization scenario
Prashanth Jaikumar, Anupam Mazumdar
We study thermalization of the early Universe when the inflaton can decay into the Standard Model (SM) quarks and gluons, using QCD arguments. We describe the possible formation of…
Scalar-isoscalar excitation in dense quark matter
Prashanth Jaikumar, Ismail Zahed
We study the spectrum of scalar-isoscalar excitations in the color-flavor locked phase of dense quark matter. The sigma meson in this phase appears as a four-quark state (of diquar…
Neutrino Emission from Goldstone Modes in Dense Quark Matter
Prashanth Jaikumar, Madappa Prakash, Thomas Schaefer
We calculate neutrino emissivities from the decay and scattering of Goldstone bosons in the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase of quarks at high baryon density. Interactions in the CF…