Search for Stable Strange Quark Matter in Lunar Soil
We report results from a search for strangelets (small chunks of strange quark matter) in lunar soil using the Yale WNSL accelerator as a mass spectrometer. We have searched over a range in mass from A=42 to A=70 amu for nuclear charges 5, 6, 8, 9, and 11. No strangelets were found in the experimen...
Main Authors: | Han, K., Ashenfelter, J., Chikanian, A., Emmet, W., Finch, L. E., Heinz, A., Madsen, J., Majka, R. D., Sandweiss, J., Monreal, Benjamin, 1977- |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Physical Society
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52694 |
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