Physics of Strangelets
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
After a brief introduction to the physics of bulk strange quark matter (SQM) this review focuses on the properties of low baryon number strangelets presently searched for in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion experiments at CERN and Brookhaven. Shell-model calculations reveal interesting (meta)stability properties in the experimentally accessible regime. A liquid drop model (Fermi-gas model) is shown to explain the overall behavior of the mode-filling calculations, leading to a physical understanding of strangelet properties, which can be generalized to non-zero temperature and pressure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9412316,
title = {Physics of Strangelets},
author = {Jes Madsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9412316},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
15 pages, LaTeX, figures available on request. Invited review to appear in Proceedings of Strangeness and Quark Matter, Krete, Sep. 1--5 1994 (World Scientific)