Superconducting K strings in high density QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 235-249

  Buckley, Kirk B W ^a   Zhitnitsky, Ariel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chiral Lagrangians; Nonperturbative Effects; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044439755     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/013     Document Type: Article

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