Strangelets: Who is Looking, and How?
Nuclear Experiment
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
It has been over 30 years since the first suggestion that the true ground state of cold hadronic matter might be not nuclear matter but rather strange quark matter (SQM). Ever since, searches for stable SQM have been proceeding in various forms and have observed a handful of interesting events but have neither been able to find compelling evidence for stable strangelets nor to rule out their existence. I will survey the current status and near future of such searches with particular emphasis on the idea of SQM from strange star collisions as part of the cosmic ray flux.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0605010,
title = {Strangelets: Who is Looking, and How?},
author = {Evan Finch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0605010},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Talk given at International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, 2006. 8 pages. 1 figure