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Color-flavor locked strangelets
Finite lumps of color-flavor locked strange quark matter (CFL-strangelets)
are significantly more stable than strangelets without color-flavor locking for
wide ranges of parameters, increasing the likelihood of strangelet
metastability, or even absolute stability beyond some minimum baryon number
. Whereas bulk CFL strange quark matter is electrically neutral,
CFL-strangelets are positively charged, with . This is
quite different from ``ordinary'' strangelets and may provide a possible test
of color-flavor locking if strangelets are detected in upcoming cosmic-ray
space experiments.Comment: Version published in PRL Oct.22-issue. Minor changes onl
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