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Phys. Rev. D 62, 034007 (2000) [22 pages]

Debye screening and the Meissner effect in a two-flavor color superconductor

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Dirk H. Rischke*
RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

Received 24 January 2000; published 7 July 2000

I compute the gluon self-energy in a color superconductor with two flavors of massless quarks, where condensation of Cooper pairs breaks SU(3)c to SU(2)c. At zero temperature, there is neither Debye screening nor a Meissner effect for the three gluons of the unbroken SU(2)c subgroup. The remaining five gluons attain an electric as well as a magnetic mass. For temperatures approaching the critical temperature for the onset of color superconductivity, or for gluon momenta much larger than the color-superconducting gap, the self-energy assumes the form given by the standard hard-dense loop approximation. The gluon self-energy determines the coefficient of the kinetic term in the effective low-energy theory for the condensate fields.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.034007
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.034007
PACS:
12.38.Mh, 24.85.+p

*Email address: rischke@bnl.gov