PREDICTION OF ENHANCED PRODUCTION OF STRANGE MATTER AT CERN SPS

The inclusion of the curvature tem in the mass formula for drops of st range matter, S drops, destabilizes them for a baryon number A approxi mately 10. Nevertheless, the strangeness content observed in the recen t NA36 experiment at CERN leads to a larger estimate, compared to expe riments at BNL, of the average number of s quarks per participant nucl eon, which in turn enhances the production probability of S drops of b aryon number 20 less than or similar A less than or similar 40. Hence, one should not lose this window of opportunity to detect S drops in r elativistic heavy-ion collisions at fixed-target experiments at CERN.