Disassembly model for the production of astrophysical strangelets

TL;DR

This paper develops a statistical disassembly model to predict the mass distribution of strangelets produced during strange star mergers, considering finite quark mass and Coulomb effects to improve astrophysical predictions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel disassembly model that incorporates finite strange quark mass and Coulomb corrections for more accurate strangelet distribution predictions.

Findings

Predicted strangelet mass distribution in galaxy

Impact of finite quark mass on strangelet production

Role of Coulomb correction in charge distribution

Abstract

Determination of the baryon number (or mass) distribution of the strangelets, that may fragment out of the warm and excited strange quark matter (SQM) ejected in the merger of strange stars (SSs) in compact binary stellar systems of the Galaxy, is attempted by using a statistical disassembly model (SMM). Finite mass of strange quarks is taken into account in the analysis. Strangelet charge and the resulting Coulomb correction are included to get a plausible mass distribution of galactic strangelets at their source.