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The MIT bag model of deconfined quark matter and its use in stability and equation-of-state calculations: bag constant B, quark masses, and other parameters determining whether strange quark matter (or finite strangelets) is stable or metastable relative to hadronic matter. Not lattice QCD results and not chiral effective models (e.g. NJL), which have their own tags.

Bag-model calculations allow strange quark matter to be stable for plausible parameter values

SupportedThe evidence favors the claim, but the examination is incomplete or the evidence is indirect.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Dense Quark Matter Strangeletsimportance · minorImportance 0.30, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →

Up-down quark matter stable only above baryon number about 300 is consistent with ordinary nuclear stability

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 →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Dense Quark Matterimportance · minorImportance 0.25, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →

In bag-model calculations strange quark matter has lower energy per baryon than two-flavor quark matter

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 →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Dense Quark Matter Strangeletsimportance · settledImportance 0.20, from 0 to 1 · settled: uncontested, so low even when much depends on it. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →

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