Distillation model calculations
The argument
Given that heavy-ion collisions can form a baryon-rich quark-gluon plasma and that the transition at high baryon density is first order, phase coexistence lets the system separate strangeness: because kaon emission carries antistrange quarks away while strange quarks remain, the plasma cools into an increasingly strange, increasingly bound droplet. Model calculations along this chain (Greiner, Koch and Stöcker, Phys. Rev. D 38, 2797; Greiner and Stöcker, Phys. Rev. D 44, 3517) find yields far above those of competing mechanisms, so if the distilled droplet survives hadronization and evaporation, distillation is the dominant production channel.
Does it work?
Not yet evaluated.
Premises
- UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →Kaon emission during hadronization enriches a baryon-rich quark-gluon plasma in strange quarks
- UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →Heavy-ion collisions can produce a baryon-rich quark-gluon plasma
- InconclusiveThe evidence and argument have been examined and do not come down on either side.constitution →The quark-hadron phase transition at high baryon density is first order
- UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →Strangelets produced in heavy-ion collisions can survive hadronization and evaporation long enough to be detected
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