Charge Dependence of the Critical Density of Strange Quark Matter in a New Mass Scaling
- Received Date: 2000-01-14
- Accepted Date: 1900-01-01
- Available Online: 2000-08-05
Abstract: One of our recent works demonstrates that the previous quark mass scaling should be modified, which has significantly changed the density behavior of the sound velocity in strange quark matter. In the present study, we provide a selfconsistent thermodynamic treatment to determine the parmeter in the mass formula, and prove that, under the new quark mass scaling, proper negative charges can still lower the critical density, and thus be favorable to the searches for strangelets in heavy ion experiments. Naturally, too much negative charges can still make it impossible to maintain flavor equilibrium.