Search for nuclearites with the ANTARES detector

Albert A, Alves S, André M, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Ardid M, Ardid S, Aubert JJ, Aublin J, Baret B, Basa S, Belhorma B, Bendahman M, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bissinger M, Boumaaza J, Bouta M, Bouwhuis MC, Brânzaş H, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Caiffi B, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Carretero V, Celli S, Chabab M, Chau TN, El Moursli RC, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coleiro A, Colomer-Molla M, Coniglione R, Coyle P, Creusot A, Díaz AF, de Wasseige G, Deschamps A, Distefano C, Di Palma I, Domi A, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Eberl T, van Eeden T, van Eijk D, El Khayati N, Enzenhöfer A, Fermani P, Ferrara G, Filippini F, Fusco LA, Gatelet Y, Gay P, Glotin H, Gozzini R, Gracia Ruiz R, Graf K, Guidi C, Hallmann S, van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernández-Rey JJ, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, Huang F, Illuminati G, James CW, Jisse-Jung B, de Jong M, de Jong P, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Khan-Chowdhury NR, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Le Breton R, Lefèvre D, Leonora E, Levi G, Lincetto M, Lopez-Coto D, Loucatos S, Maderer L, Manczak J, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martínez-Mora JA, Melis K, Migliozzi P, Moussa A, Muller R, Nauta L, Navas S, Nezri E, O’Fearraigh B, Păun A, Păvălaş GE, Pellegrino C, Perrin-Terrin M, Pestel V, Piattelli P, Pieterse C, Poirè C, Popa V, Pradier T, Randazzo N, Reck S, Riccobene G, Romanov A, Sánchez-Losa A, Salesa Greus F, Samtleben DF, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schnabel J, Schumann J, Schüssler F, Spurio M, Stolarczyk T, Taiuti M, Tayalati Y, Tingay SJ, Vallage B, Van Elewyck V, Versari F, Viola S, Vivolo D, Wilms J, Zavatarelli S, Zegarelli A, Zornoza JD, Zúñiga J (2022)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2022

Journal

Publisher: Sissa Medialab Srl

Book Volume: 395

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of Science

Event location: Virtual, Berlin, DEU

Abstract

ANTARES is a Cherenkov underwater neutrino telescope operating in the Mediterranean. Its construction was completed in 2008. Even though optimised for the search of cosmic neutrinos, this telescope is also sensitive to nuclearites (massive nuggets of strange quark matter [1]) trough the black body radiation emitted along their path [2]. We discuss here the possible detection of non-relativistic down-going nuclearites with the ANTARES telescope and present the results of an analysis using data collected from 2009 till 2017.

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National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe / Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'univers (IRFU) France (FR) Mohammed V University (UMVA) / جامعة محمد الخامس‎ Morocco (MA) Université Paris-Sud France (FR) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) FOM Foundation Netherlands (NL) Cadi Ayyad University / جامعة القاضي عياض‎ Morocco (MA) Universidad de Granada Spain (ES) UMR Géoazur - Campus Azur du CNRS France (FR) Institute for Corpuscular Physics / Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) Spain (ES) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain (ES) National Center for Energy Science & Nuclear Technology Morocco (MA) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) National Institute for Laser, Plasma & Radiation Physics (INFLPR) Romania (RO) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Australia (AU) Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) / Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie France (FR)

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APA:

Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M.,... Zúñiga, J. (2022). Search for nuclearites with the ANTARES detector. In Proceedings of Science. Virtual, Berlin, DEU: Sissa Medialab Srl.

MLA:

Albert, A., et al. "Search for nuclearites with the ANTARES detector." Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021, Virtual, Berlin, DEU Sissa Medialab Srl, 2022.

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