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Exotic decays of strangelets

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Acta Physica Hungarica New Series Heavy Ion Physics

Abstract

The stability of strange matter depends on the implicit assumption that baryon number is conserved. We examine the relevant effective operators which allow strangelets to decay by violating the conservation of baryon number. From the experimental lower limit of 1025 years on the stability of nuclei, we find a lower limit of the order 106 years on the stability of strangelets against such exotic decays.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of California, 92521, Riverside, California, USA

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Keith, E., Ma, E. Exotic decays of strangelets. APH N.S., Heavy Ion Physics 4, 381–386 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03155634

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