  The properties of strangelets at finite temperature are studied within the
framework of an equivparticle model, where a new quark mass scaling and
self-consistent thermodynamic treatment are adopted. The effects of finite
volume and Coulomb energy are taken into account. Our results show that the
temperature T, baryon number A and perturbation interactions have strong
influences on the properties of strangelets. It is found that the energy per
baryon M/A and charge-to-mass ratio fz decrease with baryon number A, while the
mechanically stable radius R and strangeness per baryon fs are increasing. For
a strangelet with a fixed baryon number, we note that as temperature T
increases the quantites M/A, R, and fs are increasing while fz is decreasing.
The effects of confinement and perturbative interactions are investigated as
well by readjusting the corresponding parameters.
