trailStrange quark matter is the true ground state of baryonic matter
Stable or metastable strangelets can exist
Some observed compact stars may be strange quark stars
Theoretical stability window· for
Bag-model calculations allow strange quark matter to be stable for plausible parameter values
Constraints from hadron phenomenology and heavy-ion collisions exclude much of the Farhi–Jaffe strange-matter stability window
Stable strange quark matter is consistent with the observed stability of ordinary nuclei
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Non-observation of strangelets· against
No strangelet has been observed in heavy-ion collision experiments
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Cosmic-ray and terrestrial searches have found no confirmed strangelets
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Finite-size effects may destabilize small strangelets even if bulk strange quark matter is stable
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Up-down quark matter rival· against
Up-down quark matter may be more stable than strange quark matter
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assumed
First-principles QCD calculations cannot determine whether strange quark matter is stable
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Strange quark matter is the true ground state of baryonic matter
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