Strangelet Searches in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

Abstract

In this contribution I concentrate on the recent results from experiment E864 at the BNL-AGS. E864's recent analysis have achieved sensitivities of approximately $3\times 10^{-8}$ per 10% central interaction for the production of charged strangelets and the first analysis for neutral strangelets is near completion. I put the results in the context of coalescence and quark gluon plasma strangelet production models.

Contribution to HYP'97 (International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, October 13-18.)

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• Very Small Strangelets
• Detectability of Strange Matter in Heavy Ion Experiments
• Nucleation of Quark--Gluon Plasma from Hadronic Matter
• Search for Charged Strange Quark Matter Produced in 11.5 A GeV/c Au + Pb Collisions
• Inhomogeneous Nucleation of Quark-Gluon Plasma in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
• A 10 MHz beam counter and a multiplicity detector for the E864 spectrometer