Illuminating dense quark matter.
- Manuel C Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
- Rajagopal K
- 2002-01-22
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- Physical review letters. - 2002
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We imagine shining light on a lump of cold dense quark matter, in the color-flavor locked phase and therefore a transparent insulator. We calculate the angles of reflection and refraction, and the intensity of the reflected and refracted light. Although the only potentially observable context for this phenomenon (reflection of light from and refraction of light through an illuminated quark star) is unlikely to be realized, our calculation casts new light on the old idea that confinement makes the QCD vacuum behave as if filled with a condensate of color-magnetic monopoles.
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- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.042003
- PMID 11801111
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