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The conjecture of Bodmer-Witten-Terazawa suggesting a form of quark matter(Strange Quark Matter) as the ground state of hadronic interactions has beenstudied in laboratory and astrophysical contexts by a large number of authors.If strange stars exist, some violent events involving these compact objects,such as mergers and even their formation process, might eject some strangematter into the interstellar medium that could be detected as a trace signal inthe cosmic ray flux. To evaluate this possibility, it is necessary tounderstand how this matter in bulk would fragment in the form of strangelets(small lumps of strange quark matter in which finite effects become important).We calculate the mass distribution outcome using the statisticalmultifragmentation model and point out several caveats affecting it. Inparticular, the possibility that strangelets fragmentation will render a tinyfraction of contamination in the cosmic ray flux is discussed.

Strange quark matter fragmentation in astrophysical events