Physical properties of strangelets
- Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Arhus C (Denmark)
Low-baryon number lumps of strange quark matter, strangelets, are presently searched for in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion experiments at CERN and Brookhaven. This paper gives an overview of the physical properties of strangelets with emphasis on experimental signatures such as mass and charge. Direct solutions of the Dirac equation with MIT bag model boundary conditions are applied and compared to calculations based on a smoothed density of states, as well as to simple mass-formulae based on the MIT bag. Most strangelet properties can be understood within an approximation including bulk, surface and curvature energy contributions. {copyright} 1995 {ital American} {ital Institute} {ital of} {ital Physics}.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 165687
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950172-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 96:002351
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 340, Issue 1; Conference: Strangeness in hadronic matter conference, Tucson, AZ (United States), 3-7 Jan 1995; Other Information: PBD: 20 Jul 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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