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 GreinerGND, Peter Koch, Horst StöckerORCiDGND |
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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): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |