NEUTRON STAR CORES. “Ordinary nuclei, made up of up and down quarks, may dissolve their boundaries and transit to an SQM phase (consisting of up, down, and strange quarks) if the nuclei experience high-enough pressure. Strange matter in bulk is stable. Even small chunks of strange matter with baryon number lower than 10(7), called “strangelets,” can be stable due to surface tension.” (SQM = Strange-quark matter).
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022