Search for Charged Strange Quark Matter Produced in 11.5{ital A} GeV/{ital c} Au+Pb Collisions
- University of Bari/INFN, Bari (Italy)
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)
- University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 (United States)
- Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (United States)
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (United States)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 (United States)
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (United States)
- United States Military Academy, West Point, New York 10996 (United States)
- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235 (United States)
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201 (United States)
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (United States)
We present results of a search for strange quark matter (strangelets) in 11.5A GeV /c Au+Pb collisions from the 1994 and 1995 runs of experiment E864 at Brookhaven{close_quote}s Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. We observe no strangelet candidates and set a 90{percent} confidence level upper limit of approximately 3{times}10{sup {minus}8} per 10{percent} central interaction for the production of {vert_bar}Z{vert_bar}=1 and {vert_bar}Z{vert_bar}=2 strangelets over a large mass range and with metastable lifetimes of about 50ns or more. These results place constraints primarily on quark-gluon plasma based production models for strangelets. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 545003
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 19 Vol. 79; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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