Diquark Bose-Einstein condensation

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Bose-Einstein condensation of composite diquarks in quark matter (the color superconductor phase) is discussed using the quasichemical equilibrium theory at a relatively low-density region near the deconfinement phase transition, where dynamical quark-pair fluctuations are assumed to be described as bosonic degrees of freedom (diquarks). A general formulation is given for the diquark formation and particle-antiparticle pair-creation processes in the relativistic framework, and some interesting properties are shown, which are characteristic for the relativistic many-body system. Behaviors of transition temperature and phase diagram of the quark-diquark matter are generally presented in model parameter space, and their asymptotic behaviors are also discussed. As an application to the color superconductivity, the transition temperatures and the quark and diquark density profiles are calculated in case with constituent/current quarks, where the diquark is in the bound/resonant state. We obtained ${T}_{C}\ensuremath{\sim}60--80\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}$ for constituent quarks and ${T}_{C}\ensuremath{\sim}130\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}$ for current quarks at a moderate density (${\ensuremath{\rho}}_{b}\ensuremath{\sim}3{\ensuremath{\rho}}_{0}$). The method is also developed to include interdiquark interactions into the quasichemical equilibrium theory within a mean-field approximation, and it is found that a possible repulsive diquark-diquark interaction lowers the transition temperature by $\ensuremath{\sim}50%$.