Cosmic ray strangelets

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2004-11-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411601v1

J.Phys. G31 (2005) S833-S840

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages. SQM2004 plenary talk. Submitted to Journal of Physics G

Scientific paper

10.1088/0954-3899/31/6/025

Searching for strangelets in cosmic rays may be the best way to test the possible stability of strange quark matter. I review calculations of the astrophysical strangelet flux in the GV--TV rigidity range, which will be investigated from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) on the International Space Station, and discuss the merits of strangelets as ultra-high energy cosmic rays at EeV--ZeV energies, beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff. I also address some ``counter-arguments'' sometimes raised against the possibility of stable strangelets. It will be argued that stability of strange quark matter remains a viable possibility, which must be tested by experiments.

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