Percolation transition in Yang-Mills matter at a finite number of colors |
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Authors: | Lottini Stefano Torrieri Giorgio |
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Institution: | ITP J. W. Goethe Universit?t, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. |
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Abstract: | We examine baryonic matter at a quark chemical potential of the order of the confinement scale μ(q)~Λ(QCD). In this regime, quarks are supposed to be confined but baryons are close to the "tightly packed limit" where they nearly overlap in configuration space. We show that this system will exhibit a percolation phase transition when varied in the number of colors N(c): at high N(c), large distance correlations at the quark level are possible even if the quarks are essentially confined. At low N(c), this does not happen. We discuss the relevance of this for dense nuclear matter, and argue that our results suggest a new "phase transition," varying N(c) at constant μ(q). |
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