  We study the stability of small strangelets by employing a simple model of
strange matter as a gas of non-interacting fermions confined in a bag. We solve
the Dirac equation and populate the energy levels of the bag one quark at a
time. Our results show that for system parameters such that strange matter is
unbound in bulk, there may still exist strangelets with $A<100$ that are stable
and/or metastable. The lifetime of these strangelets may be too small to detect
in current accelerator experiments, however.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology