Separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the phase transition from quark to hadron matter: Possible formation of strange quark matter in heavy-ion collisions

  • We present a mechanism for the separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the deconfinement transition. For a net strangeness of zero in the total system, the population of s quarks is greatly enriched in the quark-gluon plasma, while the s¯ quarks drift into the hadronic phase. This separation could result in ‘‘strangelet’’ formation, i.e., metastable blobs of strange-quark matter, which could serve as a unique signature for quark-gluon plasma formation in heavy-ion collisions. PACS: 25.70.Np, 12.38.Mh

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Author:Carsten GreinerGND, Peter Koch, Horst StöckerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-29287
URL:http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v58/p1825
Parent Title (German):Physical review letters
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2006/07/04
Year of first Publication:1987
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2006/07/04
Volume:58
Issue:18
Page Number:4
First Page:1825
Last Page:1828
HeBIS-PPN:187374937
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht