1998/09/29 by J. E. Horvath, H. Vucetich · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.59.023003
published as Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 023003 · RevTex file, no figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
arxiv created 1998/09/29 · openalex publication_date 1998/12/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We address the production of strangelets inside neutron stars by means of high-energy neutrino interactions (sparking). Requiring that neutron stars remain as such along their lifetimes, we obtain a bound on the probability of a strangelet in the final state and compare it with existing laboratory limits. It turns out that this mechanism is not likely to drive a neutro\stackrel\ensuremath→nstrange stars conversion for realistic values of the minimum center-mass-energy necessary to produce the quark-gluon plasma, a necessary precondition for the formation of the strangelet.