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PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 606, Issue 1-2, Pages 52-58Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.11.081
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We study the effective field theory for fermions in the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase of high density QCD. The effective theory contains a flavor nonet of baryons interacting with a nonet of pseudoscalar Goldstone bosons as well as a singlet scalar Goldstone boson. The theory is similar to chiral perturbation theory in the one-baryon sector. We explain how to incorporate quark mass terms and study the spectrum as a function of the strange quark mass. Without meson condensation gapless baryon modes appears if the strange quark mass exceeds a critical value m(S)(2)/(2(PF)) = Delta, where (PF) is the Fermi momentum and Delta is the gap in the chiral limit. We show that kaon condensation leads to a rearrangement of the baryon spectrum and shifts the critical strange quark mass for the appearance of a gapless mode to higher values. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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