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
| Author: | Carsten Greiner, Peter Koch, Horst Stöcker |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-29287 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 04.07.2006 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1987 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Source: | Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1825~V1828 (1987), ©1987 The American Physical Society, http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v58/p1825 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 187374937 |
| Institutes: | Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 530 Physik |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
