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Distillation of Strangelets for low initial mu/T

Nuclear Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We calculate the evolution of quark-gluon-plasma droplets during the hadronization in a thermodynamical model. It is speculated that cooling as well as strangeness enrichment allow for the formation of strangelets even at very high initial entropy per baryon S/Ainit500S/A^{\rm init}\approx 500 and low initial baryon numbers of ABinit30A_{\rm B}^{\rm init}\approx 30. It is shown that the droplet with vanishing initial chemical potential of strange quarks and a very moderate chemical potential of up/down quarks immediately charges up with strangeness. Baryon densities of 2ρ0\approx 2\rho_0 and strange chemical potentials of μs>350\mu_s>350~MeV are reached if strangelets are stable. The importance of net--baryon and net--strangeness fluctuations for the possible strangelet formation at RHIC and LHC is emphasized.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9508016,
  title  = {Distillation of Strangelets for low initial mu/T},
  author = {C. Spieles and C. Greiner and H. Stoecker and J. P. Coffin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9508016},
  year   = {2007}
}