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Thickness of the strangelet-crystal crust of a strange star

Thickness of the strangelet-crystal crust of a strange star

It has recently been pointed out that if the surface tension of quark matter is low enough, the surface of a strange star will be a crust consisting of a crystal of charged strangelets in a neutralizing background of electrons. This affects the behavior of the surface and must be …