Hard loops, soft loops, and high density effective field theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSA.2003.08.028zbMATH Open1058.81758arXivhep-ph/0307074OpenAlexW2062306495MaRDI QIDQ1409403FDOQ1409403

Authors: Thomas Schäfer 

Publication date: 13 October 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study several issues related to the use of effective field theories in QCD at large baryon density. We show that the power counting is complicated by the appearance of two scales inside loop integrals. Hard dense loops involve the large scale $m{u}^2$ and lead to phenomena such as screening and damping at the scale $gmu$. Soft loops only involve small scales and lead to superfluidity and non-Fermi liquid behavior at exponentially small scales. Four-fermion operators in the effective theory are suppressed by powers of $1/mu$, but they get enhanced by hard loops. As a consequence their contribution to the pairing gap is only suppressed by powers of the coupling constant, and not powers of $1/mu$. We determine the coefficients of four-fermion operators in the effective theory by matching quark-quark scattering amplitudes. Finally, we introduce a perturbative scheme for computing corrections to the gap parameter in the superfluid phase

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0307074

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zbMATH Keywords

power countingfour-fermion operatorslarge-baryon-density QCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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