Symmetry and Quark Matter
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 January 2022) | Viewed by 384
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on symmetries in quark matter at specific energies and temperatures. Various theories and models have been examined and applied to atomic nuclei, color superconductivity, and extremely high-density matter in neutron stars.
Ever since the proposal that the Lie-group SU(3) is the symmetry group for the constituents of Hadrons, quarks have played an important role in elementary particle physics. Although they have never been detected as free particles, they are expected to be free with a large momentum transfer and at an extremely high temperature in the field-theoretical sense. At low energies, quarks are thought to be confined to hadrons with a size of around 1 femtometer = 10-15 m = 1 Fermi.
New trends in this field of symmetry and quark matter include the application of quark matter theories to fields of nuclear physics and astrophysics, specifically nuclear structures, neutron stars, quark stars, and magnetars. Here, condensed matter analysis of QCDs and quark matter phases such as color super conductivity have been important subjects of study in quark matter.
Prof. Dr. Henrik Georg Bohr
Guest Editor
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