TY - JOUR A1 - Greiner, Carsten A1 - Koch, Peter A1 - Stöcker, Horst T1 - Separation of strangeness from antistrangeness in the phase transition from quark to hadron matter: Possible formation of strange quark matter in heavy-ion collisions T2 - Physical review letters N2 - 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 Y1 - 2006 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2451 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-29287 UR - http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v58/p1825 VL - 58 IS - 18 SP - 1825 EP - 1828 ER -