Will relativistic heavy-ion colliders destroy our planet?

Preprint

25 October 1999

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9910471

Abstract

Experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory will study collisions between gold nuclei at unprecedented energies. The concern has been voiced that ``strangelets''-hypothetical products of these collisions - may trigger the destruction of our planet. We show how naturally occurring heavy-ion collisions can be used to derive a safe and stringent upper bound on the risk incurred in running these experiments.

Keywords

RELATIVISTIC HEAVY
COLLIDERS DESTROY
ION COLLIDERS
COLLISIONS
HEAVY ION
VOICED
PLANET
GOLD

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Version 1, 1999-10-25, ArXiv
Published version: Physics Letters B, 470 (1-4), 142.

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