Abstract
We have searched for strangelets in a triggered sample of 61 million central (top 4%) Au+Au collisions at GeV near beam rapidities at the STAR solenoidal tracker detector at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We have sensitivity to metastable strangelets with lifetimes of order ns, in contrast to limits over ten times longer in BNL Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) studies and longer still at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Upper limits of a few to per central Au+Au collision are set for strangelets with mass GeV/.
- Received 27 November 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.76.011901
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