Low-energy dynamics in ultradegenerate QCD matter

Abstract

We study the low-energy behavior of QCD Green functions in the limit that the baryon chemical potential is much larger than the QCD scale parameter Lambda(QCD). We show that there is a systematic low-energy expansion in powers of (omega/m)(1/3), where omega is the energy and m is the screening scale. This expansion is valid even if the effective quark-gluon coupling g is not small. The expansion is purely perturbative in the magnetic regime vertical bar k vertical bar > k(0). If the external momenta and energies satisfy vertical bar k vertical bar similar to k(0), planar, Abelian ladder diagrams involving the full quark propagator have to be resummed but the corresponding Dyson-Schwinger equations are closed.