Color-flavor locking in strange stars, strangelets, and cosmic rays
Abstract
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Three topics with relation to color superconductivity in strange quark matter are discussed. 1) The r-mode instability in strange stars, which is consistent with the existence of ``ordinary'' strange quark matter stars but inconsistent with strange stars in a pure color-flavor locked state. 2) Color-flavor locked strangelets, which are more bound than normal strangelets, and have a different charge-mass relation. 3) Estimates of the strangelet flux in cosmic rays, which is relevant for strangelet detections in upcoming cosmic ray space experiments.
Invited talk at the Conference on Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram, Copenhagen, August 15-18, 2001. 12 pages incl. 3 figures
Invited talk at the Conference on Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram, Copenhagen, August 15-18, 2001. 12 pages incl. 3 figures