Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: The stability of color-flavor locked (CFL) strangelets is studied in the three-flavor Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. We consider all quark flavors to be massless, for simplicity. By making use of the multiple reflection expansion, we explicitly take into account finite size effects and formulate the thermodynamic potential for CFL strangelets. We find that the CFL gap could be large enough so that the energy per baryon number of CFL strangelets is greatly affected. In addition, if the quark–quark coupling constant is larger than a certain critical value, there is a possibility of finding absolutely stable CFL strangelets.
Author: O. KIRIYAMA
Institution: Goethe University Frankfurt
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1990164007