%0 Journal Article
%T Will relativistic heavy-ion colliders destroy our planet?
%A Arnon Dar
%A A. De RšČjula
%A Ulrich Heinz
%J Physics
%D 1999
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01307-6
%X Experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory will study collisions between gold nuclei at unprecedented energies. The concern has been voiced that ``strangelets''-hypothetical products of these collisions - may trigger the destruction of our planet. We show how naturally occurring heavy-ion collisions can be used to derive a safe and stringent upper bound on the risk incurred in running these experiments.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9910471v1