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Emission of droplets of strange quark matter in RHIC

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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We demonstrate that strangeness separates in the quark-hadron coexistence (even atT=0) and prompt kaon emission results in a strong enhancement of thes-quark abundance in the quark phase during the phase transition to hadron matter. Condensation into stabilized droplets of strange quark matter (“strangelets”) does occur during the phase transition. The so formed cool, compact, long-lived clusters could be experimentally observed by their smallZ/A-ratio. If the late quark matter phase is unstable, it should be observable by the delayed, correlated emission of several hyperons.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität, Postfach 111932, D-6000, Frankfurt 11, Germany

    C. Greiner, D. Rischke & H. Stöcker

  2. Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung GSI, Postfach 110552, D-6100, Darmstadt, Germany

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Greiner, C., Rischke, D., Stöcker, H. et al. Emission of droplets of strange quark matter in RHIC. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 38, 283–289 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574551

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