Creation of strange matter at low initial {bold {mu}/}{ital T}

Journal Article · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1996 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.1776· OSTI ID:284416

Spieles, C; Gerland, L; Stoecker, H ^[1]; Greiner, C ^[2]; Kuhn, C; Coffin, J P ^[3]

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1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, J. W. Goethe-Universitaet, D-60054 Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, J. Liebig-Universitaet, D-35392 Giessen (Germany)
3. Centre de Recherches Nucleaires de Strasbourg et Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France)

We demonstrate that the creation of strange matter is conceivable in the midrapidity region of heavy ion collisions at Brookhaven RHIC and CERN LHC. A finite net-baryon density, abundant (anti)strangeness production, as well as strong net-baryon and net-strangeness fluctuations, provide suitable initial conditions for the formation of strangelets or metastable exotic multistrange (baryonic) objects. Even at very high initial entropy per baryon {ital S}/{ital A}{sup init}{approx_equal}500 and low initial baryon numbers of {ital A}{sub B}{sup init}{approx_equal}30 a quark-gluon-plasma droplet can immediately charge up with strangeness and accumulate net-baryon number. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}

• OSTI ID: 284416
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 76, Issue 11; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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66 PHYSICS
STRANGENESS
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
BARYONS
MATTER
BARYON NUMBER
DENSITY
FLUCTUATIONS
ENTROPY