The Stability of Strange Star Crusts and Strangelets
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Mark G. Alford, Krishna Rajagopal, Sanjay Reddy, and Andrew W. Steiner Department of Physics, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Nuclear Science Division, MS 70R319, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2006