SEARCH FOR CHARGED STRANGE QUARK MATTER PRODUCED IN 11.5A GEV C AU+PBCOLLISIONS/

Authors
ARMSTRONG TA BARISH KN BENNETT MJ BENNETT SJ CHIKANIAN A COE SD CORMIER TM DAVIES R DECATALDO G DEE P DIEBOLD GE DOVER CB FACHINI P FINCH LE GEORGE NK GIGLIETTO N GREENE SV HARIDAS P HILL JC HIRSCH AS HOVERSTEN RA HUANG HZ KIM B KUMAR BS LAINIS T LAJOIE JG LEWIS RA LI Q LIBBY B MAJKA RD MUNHOZ MG NAGLE JL PLESS LA POPE JK PORILE NT PRUNEAU CA RABIN MSZ RAINO A REID JD RIMAI A ROTONDO FS SANDWEISS J SCHARENBERG RP SLAUGHTER AJ SMITH GA SPINELLI P SRIVASTAVA BK TINCKNELL ML TOOTHACKER WS VANBUREN G WILSON WK WOHN FK WOLIN EJ XU Z ZHAO K
Citation
Ta. Armstrong et al., SEARCH FOR CHARGED STRANGE QUARK MATTER PRODUCED IN 11.5A GEV C AU+PBCOLLISIONS/, Physical review letters, 79(19), 1997, pp. 3612-3616
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
79
Issue
19
Year of publication
1997
Pages
3612 - 3616
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)79:19<3612:SFCSQM>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
We present results of a search for strange quark matter (strangelets) in 11.5A GeV/c Au + Pb collisions from the 1994 and 1995 runs of exper iment E864 at Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. We observ e no strangelet candidates and set a 90% confidence level upper limit of approximately 3 X 10(-8) per 10% central interaction for the produc tion of \Z\ = 1 and \Z\ = 2 strangelets over a large mass range and wi th metastable lifetimes of about 50 ns or more. These results place co nstraints primarily on quark-gluon plasma based production models for strangelets. [S0031-9007(97)04465-7].