Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 332-335 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy