Abstract: (Elsevier)
Recent investigations of regions of stability for multi-strange hadronic systems, made up of nucleons and hyperons {p, n, Λ, Ξ 0 , Ξ − }, are reviewed. Relativistic mean field calculations, designed to reproduce the observed binding energies of ordinary nuclei and of Λ, Ξ and ΛΛ hypernuclei, predict a large class of such objects which are stable against strong decay, including the bulk limit A → ∞, with binding energies per baryon as large as E B A ∼ −22 MeV , large strangeness per baryon f s ∼ 1–1.2, small charge per baryon f q ∼ −0.1 to 0 and with baryon densities 2–3 times that of ordinary nuclear matter. A straightforward extension of the Bethe-Weizsäcker mass formula into the strange domain accounts satisfactorily for all of these features.
  • talk: Vancouver 1994/07/04
  • matter: hadronic
  • matter: strangeness
  • strangeness: multiple
  • matter: stability
  • hypernucleus
  • binding energy: mass number
  • mass number: binding energy
  • hyperon hyperon: interaction
  • interaction: hyperon hyperon