Explicit form of quark propagators and gluon self-energies in neutral three-flavor color superconductor

TL;DR

This paper derives explicit formulas for quark propagators and gluon self-energies in neutral three-flavor color superconductors, aiding understanding of their microscopic properties.

Contribution

It provides the first explicit derivation of quark propagators and gluon self-energies in neutral three-flavor color superconducting phases.

Findings

Explicit forms for quark propagators in both gapless and gapped phases.

Explicit forms for gluon self-energies in these phases.

Facilitates further theoretical and phenomenological studies.

Abstract

Enforcing color and electric charge neutrality conditions on the three-flavor color superconducting matter, I derive the explicit form of the quark propagators and the gluon self-energies for the gapless and the ordinary color-flavor-locked phases.