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arXiv:1112.5765·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology

Planetary Impacts by Clustered Quark Matter Strangelets

Lance Labun🇺🇸 · Jan Rafelski🇺🇸

Abstract

We propose a model of clustered u-d-s quark matter that leads to stable bulk strange quark matter. We discuss qualitatively consequences of impacts by sub-planetary mass strangelets on rocky solar system bodies.

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, SQM 2011 Proceedings

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