2 research outputs found
Charge and critical density of strange quark matter
The electric charge of strange quark matter is of vital importance to
experiments. A recent investigation shows that strangelets are most likely
highly negatively charged, rather than slightly positively charged as
previously believed. Our present study indicates that negative charges can
indeed lower the critical density, and thus be favorable to the experimental
searches in heavy ion collisions. However, too much negative charges can make
it impossible to maintain flavor equilibrium.Comment: 4 pages, LATeX with REVTeX style, one PS figure. To be published in
Phys. Rev. C 59(6), 199
Mass formulas and thermodynamic treatment in the mass-density-dependent model of strange quark matter
The previous treatments for strange quark matter in the quark
mass-density-dependent model have unreasonable vacuum limits. We provide a
method to obtain the quark mass parametrizations and give a self-consistent
thermodynamic treatment which includes the MIT bag model as an extreme. In this
treatment, strange quark matter in bulk still has the possibility of absolute
stability. However, the lower density behavior of the sound velocity is
opposite to previous findings.Comment: Formatted in REVTeX 3.1, 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in PRC6