Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-04-14
Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 114016
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, LaTeX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.114016
We construct strangelets, taking into account electrostatic effects, including Debye screening, and arbitrary surface tension sigma of the interface between vacuum and quark matter. We find that there is a critical surface tension sigma_crit below which large strangelets are unstable to fragmentation and below which quark star surfaces will fragment into a crystalline crust made of charged strangelets immersed in an electron gas. We derive a model-independent relationship between sigma_crit and two parameters that characterize any quark matter equation of state. For reasonable model equations of state, we find sigma_crit typically of order a few MeV/fm^2. If sigma <= sigma_crit, the size-distribution of strangelets in cosmic rays could feature a peak corresponding to the stable strangelets that we construct.
Alford Mark G.
Rajagopal Krishna
Reddy Sanjay
Steiner Andrew
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