A diagrammatic derivation of the meson effective masses in the neutral color-flavor-locked phase of Quantum Chromodynamics

TL;DR

This paper provides a diagrammatic derivation of meson effective masses in the neutral CFL phase of QCD, revealing how microscopic loop effects generate effective chemical potentials and influence kaon condensation.

Contribution

It introduces a microscopic, diagrammatic approach to derive meson effective masses and chemical potentials in the CFL phase, extending previous symmetry-based results.

Findings

Loop effects generate effective chemical potentials for kaons.

Kaon condensation is enhanced compared to lowest order predictions.

Electrical and color neutrality significantly influence the microscopic calculations.

Abstract

We offer a diagrammatic derivation of the effective masses of the axial flavor excitations in the electrical and color neutral CFL phase of QCD. In particular we concentrate on the excitations with the quantum numbers of the kaons: we show how their effective chemical potentials, responsible of their Bose-Einstein condensation and found previously on the basis of pure symmetry arguments, arise at the microscopic level by loop effects. We perform also the numerical evaluation of the relevant loops in the whole CFL regime $M_s^2/2\mu\Delta\leqslant 1$, showing the existence of the enhancement of the kaon condensation with respect to the lowest order result. Finally we discuss the role of electrical and color neutrality in the microscopic calculation.