Searching for strange matter by heavy-ion activation

Edward Farhi; R. L. Jaffe

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.32.2452

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Searching for strange matter by heavy-ion activation

Edward Farhi and R. L. Jaffe

Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Phys. Rev. D 32, 2452 – Published 1 November, 1985

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.32.2452

Abstract

Stable, superdense quark matter may be a rare impurity in materials found on Earth today. We propose an experiment, using a conventional low-energy beam of heavy ions, to search for these strange-matter impurities.

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See, for example, G. L. Shaw, G. Benford, and D. J. Silverman, University of California at Irvine Report No. 85-14, 1985 (unpublished); G. Baym, R. L. Jaffe, E. W. Kolb, L. McLerran, and T. P. Walker, Fermilab report, 1985 (unpublished).
E. Farhi and R. L. Jaffe, Phys. Rev. D 30, 2379 (1984).
M. D. Deleplanque, R. Diamond, F. Stevens, and P. O. Tjoøm (private communication).

[c1] E. Witten, Phys. Rev. D 30, 272 (1984).

[c2] A. De Rújula and S. Glashow, Nature 312, 734 (1984).

[c3] C. Alcock and E. Farhi, Phys. Rev. D 32, 1273 (1985).

[c4] See, for example, G. L. Shaw, G. Benford, and D. J. Silverman, University of California at Irvine Report No. 85-14, 1985 (unpublished); G. Baym, R. L. Jaffe, E. W. Kolb, L. McLerran, and T. P. Walker, Fermilab report, 1985 (unpublished).

[c5] E. Farhi and R. L. Jaffe, Phys. Rev. D 30, 2379 (1984).

[c6] M. D. Deleplanque, R. Diamond, F. Stevens, and P. O. Tjoøm (private communication).

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