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Title: Separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the phase transition from quark to hadron matter: Possible formation of strange quark matter in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

We present a mechanism for the separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the deconfinement transition. For a net strangeness of zero in the total system, the population of s quarks is greatly enriched in the quark-gluon plasma, while the s-bar quarks drift into the hadronic phase. This separation could result in ''strangelet'' formation, i.e., metastable blobs of strange-quark matter, which could serve as a unique signature for quark-gluon plasma formation in heavy-ion collisions.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, D-6000 Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
OSTI Identifier:
6475474
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 58:18
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; QUARK MATTER; STRANGENESS; BAG MODEL; BARYON NUMBER; ENTROPY; HADRONS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; PHASE SPACE; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY; TIME DEPENDENCE; UNIVERSE; CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS; COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATTER; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUARK MODEL; SPACE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; 653003* - Nuclear Theory- Nuclear Reactions & Scattering; 645400 - High Energy Physics- Field Theory

Citation Formats

Greiner, C, Koch, P, and Stoecker, H. Separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the phase transition from quark to hadron matter: Possible formation of strange quark matter in heavy-ion collisions. United States: N. p., 1987. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1825.
Greiner, C, Koch, P, & Stoecker, H. Separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the phase transition from quark to hadron matter: Possible formation of strange quark matter in heavy-ion collisions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1825
Greiner, C, Koch, P, and Stoecker, H. 1987. "Separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the phase transition from quark to hadron matter: Possible formation of strange quark matter in heavy-ion collisions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1825.
@article{osti_6475474,
title = {Separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the phase transition from quark to hadron matter: Possible formation of strange quark matter in heavy-ion collisions},
author = {Greiner, C and Koch, P and Stoecker, H},
abstractNote = {We present a mechanism for the separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the deconfinement transition. For a net strangeness of zero in the total system, the population of s quarks is greatly enriched in the quark-gluon plasma, while the s-bar quarks drift into the hadronic phase. This separation could result in ''strangelet'' formation, i.e., metastable blobs of strange-quark matter, which could serve as a unique signature for quark-gluon plasma formation in heavy-ion collisions.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1825},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6475474}, journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 58:18,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 04 00:00:00 EDT 1987},
month = {Mon May 04 00:00:00 EDT 1987}
}