Strangelet Search at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Journal Article
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· Physical Review C
OSTI ID:934965
We have searched for strangelets in a triggered sample of 61 million central (top 4percent) Au+Au collisions at sqrt sNN = 200 GeV near beam rapidities at the STAR solenoidal tracker detector at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We have sensitivity to metastable strangelets with lifetimes of order>_0.1 ns, in contrast to limits over ten times longer in BNL Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) studies and longer still at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Upper limits of a few 10-6 to 10-7 per central Au+Au collision are set for strangelets with mass>~;;30 GeV/c2.
- Research Organization:
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Nuclear Science Division
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 934965
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-691E
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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