Stability of very small strangelets

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We study the stability of small strangelets by employing a simple model of strange matter as a gas of noninteracting fermions confined in a bag. We solve the Dirac equation and populate the energy levels of the bag one quark at a time. We find that for system parameters such that strange matter is unbound in bulk, there may still exist strangelets with A<100 that are metastable. We cannot determine, however, whether the lifetime of these strangelets is sufficient to detect them in current accelerator experiments.
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