Curvature contribution to the mass of strangelets

1993
3 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 70 (1993) 391-393

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Abstract: (APS)
The curvature energy is shown to give a very significant contribution to the mass of strangelets. Assuming three massless quark flavors, the energy per baryon is increased by roughly (435 MeV) A−2/3 within the MIT bag model, dramatically destabilizing the experimentally accessible strangelets with low baryon number A.
  • quark: matter
  • quark: strangeness
  • bag model
  • baryon number
  • finite temperature
  • hadron: gas
  • critical phenomena
  • energy: surface
  • potential: chemical
  • numerical calculations