Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:53:24 +0100 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:53:24 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3007 We examine the properties of both forms of strange matter, small lumps of strange quark matter (strangelets) and of strange hadronic matter (Metastable Exotic Multihypernuclear Objects: MEMOs) and their relevance for present and future heavy ion searches. The strong and weak decays are discussed separately to distinguish between long-lived and short-lived candidates where the former ones are detectable in present heavy ion experiments while the latter ones in future heavy ion experiments, respectively. We find some long-lived strangelet candidates which are highly negatively charged with a mass to charge ratio like a anti deuteron (M/Z 2) but masses of A=10 to 16. We predict also many short-lived candidates, both in quark and in hadronic form, which can be highly charged. Purely hyperonic nuclei like the (2 02 ) are bound and have a negative charge while carrying a positive baryon number. We demonstrate also that multiply charmed exotics (charmlets) might be bound and can be produced at future heavy ion colliders. Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich; Carsten Greiner; Horst Stöcker; Axel P. Vischer preprint http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3007 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:53:24 +0100