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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 A100 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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