Physics of Strange Matter

Abstract

Relativistic heavy ion collisions offer the possibility to produce exotic metastable states of nuclear matter containing (roughly) equal number of strangeness compared to the content in baryon number. The reasoning of both their stability and existence, the possible distillation of strangeness necessary for their formation and the chances for their detection are reviewed. In the later respect emphasize is put on the properties of small lumps of strange quark matter with respect to their stability against strong or weak hadronic decays. In addition, implications in astrophysics like the properties of neutron stars and the issue of baryonic dark matter will be discussed.

13 pages, 6 eps-figures, 1 gif-figure, Invited talk at the IV International Conference on 'Strangeness in Quark Matter', Padova (Italy), July 20 - 24, 1998

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