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Constraints on the size of the Coulomb barrier and the universal abundance of stable strange quark matter are calculated assuming that the evolution of stars and the nucleosynthesis at stellar sites are not dominated by strange quark matter. The results are applied to find the minimum required beam energy and sensitivity in a heavy ion activation search for strange quark matter in laboratory samples.
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Jändel, M. Astrophysical bounds on the properties of strange quark matter. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 40, 599–603 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01560231
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