T-16 seminar: Andrei Kryjevski

T-16 seminar: Andrei Kryjevski Tues, 04/13, 10:30a, T Div Conf Room (TA-3, SM-123, Rm 121)

Speaker: Andrei Kryjevski (University of Washington)

Ground State Alignment in Color Flavor Locked Phase of Quark Matter

We consider O(\alpha_s m_s^2) corrections to the masses of Nambu-Goldstone bosons and argue that these contributions destabilize CFL vacuum leading to a surprisingly complex phase structure of the CFL matter as a function of quark masses.