Evaporation of strange matter (and similar condensed phases) at high temperatures
- 15 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 39 (4) , 1233-1234
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.39.1233
Abstract
Strange matter is a form of quark matter that has been conjectured to be stable at zero temperature. If heated to a temperature T≥2 MeV, a strange-matter lump evaporates nucleons from its surface. We show that at higher temperatures (T≥20 MeV), strange matter boils, with bubbles of hadronic gas forming and growing throughout the interior. Strange matter, or any other phase which resembles strange matter, could not have survived this process in the early Universe.Keywords
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