{ "id": "nucl-th/0512005", "version": "v1", "published": "2005-12-01T16:53:14.000Z", "updated": "2005-12-01T16:53:14.000Z", "title": "Color superconductivity and the strange quark", "authors": [ "Mark G Alford" ], "comment": "11 pages, proceedings of QCD@Work 2005 and Johns Hopkins Workshop 2005", "doi": "10.1063/1.2163777", "categories": [ "nucl-th", "hep-ph" ], "abstract": "At ultra-high density, matter is expected to form a degenerate Fermi gas of quarks in which there is a condensate of Cooper pairs of quarks near the Fermi surface: color superconductivity. In these proceedings I review some of the underlying physics, and discuss outstanding questions about the phase structure of ultra-dense quark matter.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2005-12-01T16:53:14.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "25.75.Nq", "12.38.-t" ], "keywords": [ "color superconductivity", "strange quark", "ultra-dense quark matter", "degenerate fermi gas", "phase structure" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 11, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 699347, "adsabs": "2006AIPC..806..293A" } } }