http://homepages.uni-regensburg.de/~eng14891/qcdB_workshop/pdf/QCDB_Mueller.pdf
When QED meets QCD Is slide 21 what happens in LENR? On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does a strong magnetic field disrupt the nucleus? > > The quarks cannot be magnetic monopoles because they carry electric > charge. The quarks are confined in a duel superconductive vacuum formed by > 'magnetic charges" > > > > > > > > http://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.1055v2.pdf > > > > *Superconductivity of QCD vacuum in strong magnetic field* > > *We show that in a sufficiently strong magnetic field the QCD vacuum may > undergo a transition to a new phase where charged mesons are condensed. > In this phase the vacuum behaves as an anisotropic inhomogeneous > superconductor which supports superconductivity along the axis of the > magnetic field. In the directions transverse to the magnetic field the > superconductivity is absent. The magnetic field-induced anisotropic > superconductivity { which is realized in the cold vacuum, i.e. at zero > temperature and density { is a consequence of a non-minimal coupling of the > p mesons to the electromagnetic field. The onset of the superconductivity > of the charged p mesons should also induce an inhomogeneous superfuidity of > the neutral p0 mesons. We also argue that due to simple kinematical reasons > a strong enough magnetic field makes the lifetime of the p mesons longer by > closing the main channels of the strong decays of the p mesons into charged > pions. * > > > > In other words, in a strong enough magnetic field, pions will condense out > of the vacuum and disrupt the nucleus. > > *Also, this effect generates an electric current of quarks along the > magnetic field axis provided the densities of left- and right-handed quarks > are not equal. In the cold matter the external magnetic field may create > spatially inhomogeneous structures which are made of quark condensates*. > >

