Search for exotic strange quark matter in high energy nuclear reactions

✍ Scribed by T.A. Armstrong; K.N. Barish; S.J. Bennett; A. Chikanian; S.D. Coe; T.M. Cormier; R. Davies; G. De Cataldo; P. Dee; G.E. Diebold; C.B. Dover; P. Fachini; L.E. Finch; N.K. George; N. Giglietto; S.V. Greene; P. Haridas; J.C. Hill; A.S. Hirsch; R. Hoversten; H.Z. Huang; B. Kim; B.S. Kumar; T. Lainis; J.G. Lajoie; R.A. Lewis; B. Libby; R.D. Majka; M.G. Munhoz; J.L. Nagle; I.A. Pless; J.K. Pope; N.T. Porile; C.A. Pruneau; M.S.Z. Rabin; A. Raino; J.D. Reid; A. Rimai; F.S. Rotondo; J. Sandweiss; R.P. Scharenberg; A.J. Slaughter; G.A. Smith; P. Spinelli; M.L. Tincknell; W.S. Toothacker; G. Van Buren; F.K. Wohn; Z. Xu; K. Zhao

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 962 KB
• Volume: 625
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(97)00399-0

✦ Synopsis

We report on a search for metastable positively and negatively charged states of strange quark matter in Au +Pb reactions at 11.6 A GeV/c in experiment E864. We have sampled approximately six billion 10% most central Au + Pb interactions and have observed no strangelet states (baryon number A < 100 droplets of strange quark matter). We thus set upper limits on the production of