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Title: Surface tension of strange-quark matter in the early Universe

Journal Article · · Physical Review (Section) D: Particles and Fields; (USA)
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  1. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (US) Theoretical Physics Group, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720

The surface tension of strange-quark matter at finite temperature and pressure is calculated using the MIT bag model and is applied to strange-quark matter created in the QCD phase transition in the early Universe. The surface tension is sufficiently small that any strange-quark matter would have boiled away in the early Universe.

DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
5508966
Journal Information:
Physical Review (Section) D: Particles and Fields; (USA), Vol. 40:6; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English