Soft Interactions in Cold Quark Matter
Open Access
- 15 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 127 (16), 162003
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.162003
Abstract
Accurate knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of zero-temperature, high-density quark matter plays an integral role in attempts to constrain the behavior of the dense QCD matter found inside neutron-star cores, irrespective of the phase realized inside the stars. In this Letter, we consider the weak-coupling expansion of the dense QCD equation of state and compute the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order contribution arising from the non-Abelian interactions among long-wavelength, dynamically screened gluonic fields. Accounting for these interactions requires an all-loop resummation, which can be performed using hard-thermal-loop (HTL) kinematic approximations. Concretely, we perform a full two-loop computation using the HTL effective theory, valid for the long-wavelength, or soft, modes. We find that the soft sector is well behaved within cold quark matter, contrary to the case encountered at high temperatures, and find that the new contribution decreases the renormalization-scale dependence of the equation of state at high density.Keywords
Funding Information
- Academy of Finland (1322507)
- H2020 European Research Council (725369)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC0007984)
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