Abstract
The contribution of thermally excited electron-positron pairs to the bulk properties of the color-flavor locked quark phase inside compact stars is examined. The presence of these pairs causes the photon mean free path to be much smaller than a typical core radius (R0 ≃ 1 km) for all temperatures above 25 keV so that the photon contribution to the thermal conductivity is much smaller than that of the Nambu-Goldstone bosons. We also find that the electrons and positrons dominate the electrical conductivity, while their contributions to the total thermal energy is negligible.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 048801 |
| Pages (from-to) | 488011-488013 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - Apr 1 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics