RECENT RESULTS FROM EXPERIMENT NA52 AT THE CERN SPS

We present recent results of the NA52 experiment on the strangelet sea rch and on particle, antiparticle, light nuclei and antinuclei product ion in minimum bias Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV and zero production angle. Upper limits for the production of strangelets are given and on e candidate found using less stringent lifetime cuts is discussed. The rapidity dependence of K+(K-), p((p) over bar), d((d) over bar), t an d He-3(<(He-3)over bar>) as well as first results on He-4, Li-6 and Be -7 at forward rapidities are presented. First results on the centralit y dependence of the (p) over bar/p ratio are reported. Within the fram ework of a thermodynamical and a coalescence model, the temperature, t he baryon-and strangeness-chemical potentials and the radius of the pa rticle source at midrapidity have been estimated.