Seeding of Strange Matter with New Physics

At greater than nuclear densities, matter may convert into a mixture of nucleons, hyperons, dibaryons, and strangelets, thus facilitating the formation of strange matter even before the onset of the quark-matter phase transition. From a nonstrange dibaryon condensate, it may even be possible to leapfrog into strange matter with a certain new interaction, represented by an effective six-quark operator which is phenomenologically unconstrained.