Scale breaking in dense nuclear matter

Ramón G. Rodrguez, Joseph I. Kapusta

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Abstract

We extend the standard relativistic mean-field treatment of dense nuclear matter to make it consistent with the anomalous trace of the energy-momentum tensor of QCD. This is accomplished by introducing a field for scalar gluonium and coupling it to nucleons and to scalar and vector mesons. Only the gluonium potential, proportional to the bag constant, breaks scale invariance. A physically sensible, first-order, phase transition to quark matter occurs at high baryon density.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)870-874
Number of pages5
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume44
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1991

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