TY - INPR A1 - Spieles, Christian A1 - Bleicher, Marcus A1 - Gerland, Lars A1 - Stöcker, Horst A1 - Greiner, Carsten T1 - Dynamics of strangeness production and strange matter formation N2 - We want to draw the attention to the dynamics of a (finite) hadronizing quark matter drop. Strange and antistrange quarks do not hadronize at the same time for a baryon-rich system1. Both the hadronic and the quark matter phases enter the strange sector fs 6= 0 of the phase diagram almost immediately, which has up to now been neglected in almost all calculations of the time evolution of the system. Therefore it seems questionable, whether final particle yields reflect the actual thermodynamic properties of the system at a certain stage of the evolution. We put special interest on the possible formation of exotic states, namely strangelets (multistrange quark clusters). They may exist as (meta-)stable exotic isomers of nuclear matter 2. It was speculated that strange matter might exist also as metastable exotic multi-strange (baryonic) objects (MEMO s 3). The possible creation in heavy ion collisions of long-lived remnants of the quark-gluon-plasma, cooled and charged up with strangeness by the emission of pions and kaons, was proposed in 1,4,5. Strangelets can serve as signatures for the creation of a quark gluon plasma. Currently, both at the BNL-AGS and at the CERN-SPS experiments are carried out to search for MEMO s and strangelets, e. g. by the E864, E878 and the NA52 collaborations9, KW - Kollisionen schwerer Ionen KW - Quark-Gluon-Plasma KW - MEMOs KW - QGP KW - quark-gluon-plasma KW - QGP KW - heavy ion collisions KW - MEMOs Y1 - 2006 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3000 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-24086 ER -