We investigate the relevance of the gravitational-wave driven r-mode instability for strange stars. We find that the unstable r-modes affect strange stars in a way that is quite distinct from the neutron star case. For accreting strange stars we show that the onset of r-mode instability does not lead to the thermo-gravitational runaway that is likely to occur in neutron stars. Instead, the stra...

Strange stars that are entirely made of strange quark matter (SQM) have been long ago proposed as an alternative to neutron stars (e.g., [1, 2]). The possible existence of strange stars is a direct consequence of the conjecture that SQM composed of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks plus a smaller numbers of electrons (to neutralize the electric charge of the quarks) may be t...

The phase diagram of nuclear matter offers fascinating features for heavy ion physics and astrophysics when extended to strangeness and antimatter. We will discuss some regions of this phase diagram as strange matter at zero temperature, hypermatter at high densities and the antiworld at high densities and strangeness fraction. 1 Strange Matter and Hypermatter Relativistic heavy ion collisions ...

The temperature evolution of the chiral condensates in a gas made of pions, kaons and etas is studied within the framework of SU(2) and SU(3) Chiral Perturbation Theory. We describe the temperature dependence of the quark condensates by using the meson meson scattering phase shifts in a second order virial expansion. We find that the SU(3) formalism yields an extrapolated melting temperature fo...

The work focuses attention on strange but nonchaotic behaviour of dynamic systems as a relatively new phenomenon distinct from the usual strange chaotic one. Several characterization techniques associated with Poincare sections, Lyapunov exponents, capacity and information dimensions are used. It is shown that based on a single time series it is virtually impossible to distinguish between stran...

Relativistic corrections to the strange axial form factor are evaluated within a light-cone formalism, taking into account effects due to the breaking of Lorentz covariance associated with the use of one-body currents. Similar corrections are known to also be needed for the magnetic form factor, and we discuss the importance of these for recent data on strange electromagnetic form factors from ...

There are several different experimental indications, such as the σπN term, strange spin polarization, strangeness contribution to the magnetic moment of the proton, ratio of strange and non strange quark flavor distributions which suggest that the nucleon contains a hidden strangeness component which is contradictory to the naive constituent quark model. Chiral constituent quark model with con...