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Strange matter (or strange quark matter) is quark matter containing strange quarks. In extreme environments, strange matter is hypothesized to occur in the core of neutron stars, or, more speculatively, as isolated droplets that may vary in size from femtometers (strangelets) to kilometers, as in the hypothetical strange stars.
Strange matter is a hypothetical substance that, under special circumstances, can "eat" other matter by converting it into more strange matter. Physicists think the most likely place to find strange matter in the universe is within neutron stars.
Strange matter is a form of quark matter, often considered one of the universe’s most intriguing and least understood substances. This exotic material is theorized to contain strange quarks in addition to the up and down quarks that make up the protons and neutrons found in ordinary matter.
A new physics result two decades in the making has found a surprisingly complex path for the production of strange matter within atoms. Strange matter is any matter containing the...
Strange matter is a 'liquid' made of up, down, and strange quarks, and is different to non-strange quark matter because non-strange quark matter contains only up and down quarks, while strange quark matter has strange quarks as well. Strange matter is thought to exist in the cores of neutron stars.
Tracking nuclei containing strange-matter particles called hyperons (Λ) could help scientists learn about hyperon interactions with ordinary matter and understand the inner structure of neutron stars, where such strange matter may be abundant.
Strange matter can help us better understand the fundamental forces of the universe, particularly the strong force. That’s the force that holds quarks and gluons together. Lambda particles can be a type of strange matter.
Strange matter, a fascinating subject in particle physics, is not your everyday material. It’s theorized to be composed of an equal number of up, down, and strange quarks. Unlike the atoms familiar to us, with a nucleus surrounded by electrons, strange matter doesn’t play by the usual rules.
Strange matter is a particular form of quark matter, usually thought of as a 'liquid' of up, down, and strange quarks. It is to be contrasted with nuclear matter , which is a liquid of neutrons and protons (which themselves are built out of up and down quarks), and with non-strange quark matter, which is a quark liquid containing only up and ...
Unlike protons and neutrons, which contain a mixture of up and down quarks, Lambdas contain an up quark, a down quark, and a strange quark. Nuclear physicists recently made the first observations of how Lambda particles are produced by a specific process called semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering.