Properties of strangelets at zero temperature in a new quark mass confinement model

Abstract

We investigate the properties of strangelets at zero temperature with a new quark model in which the linear confinement and one-gluon-exchange (OGE) interactions are integrated as a whole. The charge, parameters dependence and the stability of strangelets are discussed. Our results showed that the OGE interaction lowers the energy of a strangelet, and consequently makes its stable radius smaller than that in the case of not including this interaction, and less than that of a nucleus with the same baryon number. Therefore, the strangelet in the present model has more chance to be absolutely stable.