Crystalline Color Superconductivity and the cooling of compact stars
Roberto Anglani
Abstract
I discuss specific heat and neutrino emissivity due to direct Urca processes for quark matter in the color superconductivite Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrel (LOFF) phase of QCD. Hence the cooling rate of simplified models of compact stars with quark core in the LOFF state is estimated.