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Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Albert A, Alves S, André M, Ardid M, Ardid S, Aubert JJ, Aublin J, Baret B, Basa S, Belhorma B, Bendahman M, Benfenati F, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bissinger M, Boumaaza J, Bouta M, Bouwhuis M, Brânzaş H, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Caiffi B, Calvo D, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Carretero V, Celli S, Chabab M, Chau TN, Cherkaoui El Moursli R, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coelho J, Coleiro A, Coniglione R, Coyle P, Creusot A, Díaz A, de Wasseige G, De Martino B, 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 L, García J, Gay P, Glotin H, Gozzini R, Gracia Ruiz R, Graf K, Guidi C, Hallmann S, van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernández-Rey J, 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, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Lamoureux M, Le Breton R, Lefèvre D, Leonora E, Levi G, Le Stum S, Lopez-Coto D, Loucatos S, Maderer L, Manczak J, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martínez-Mora J, Melis K, Migliozzi P, Moussa A, Muller R, Nauta L, Navas S, Nezri E, Ó Fearraigh B, Păun A, Păvălaş G, Pellegrino C, Perrin-Terrin M, Pestel V, Piattelli P, Pieterse C, Poirè C, Popa V, Pradier T, Randazzo N, Real D, Reck S, Riccobene G, Romanov A, Sánchez-Losa A, Salesa Greus F, Samtleben DF, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schnabel J, Schumann J, Schüssler F, Seneca J, 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 J, Zúñiga J (2023)

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Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2023

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Book Volume: 2023

Article Number: 012

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/012

Abstract

In this work, a search for nuclearites of strange quark matter by using nine years of ANTARES data taken in the period 2009-2017 is presented. The passage through matter of these particles is simulated taking into account a detailed description of the detector response to nuclearites and of the data acquisition conditions. A down-going flux of cosmic nuclearites with Galactic velocities (β = 10^-3) was considered for this study. The mass threshold for detecting these particles at the detector level is 4 × 10¹³ GeV/c ². Upper limits on the nuclearite flux for masses up to 10¹⁷ GeV/c ² at the level of ∼ 5 × 10^-17 cm^-2 s^-1 sr^-1 are obtained. These are the first upper limits on nuclearites established with a neutrino telescope and the most stringent ever set for Galactic velocities.

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APA:

Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J.J.,... Zúñiga, J. (2023). Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/012

MLA:

Albert, A., et al. "Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2023.1 (2023).

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