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Strangelet search in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. C 76, 011901(R) – Published 25 July 2007

Abstract

We have searched for strangelets in a triggered sample of 61 million central (top 4%) Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 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 0.1 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 106 to 107 per central Au+Au collision are set for strangelets with mass 30 GeV/c2.

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  • Received 27 November 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.76.011901

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Vol. 76, Iss. 1 — July 2007

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