New window on strange quark matter as the ground state of strongly interacting matter
New window on strange quark matter as the ground state of strongly interacting matter
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.69.074001
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发表时间:
2003-09
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5
通讯作者:
V. Soni;D. Bhattacharya
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作者:
V. Soni;D. Bhattacharya
If strange quark matter is the true ground state of matter, it must have lower energy than nuclear matter. Simultaneously, two-flavour quark matter must have higher energy than nuclear matter, for otherwise the latter would convert to the former. We show, using an effective chiral lagrangian, that the existence of a new lower energy ground state for two-flavour quark matter, the pion condensate, shrinks the window for strange quark matter to be the ground state of matter and sets new limits on the current strange quark mass.