Results of the search for strange quark matter and Q-balls with the SLIM experiment

Cecchini, S.; Cozzi, M.; Ferdinando, D. Di; Errico, M.; Fabbri, F.; Giacomelli, G.; Giacomelli, Roberto; Giorgini, M.; Kumar, Ashavani; McDonald, J.; Mandrioli, G.; Manzoor, Shahid; Margiotta, A.; Medinaceli, E.; Patrizii, L.; Pinfold, J. L.; Popa, V.; Qureshi, I. H.; Saavedra, O.; Sahnoun, Z.; Sirri, G.; Spurio, M.; Togo, V.; Valieri, C.; Velarde, A.; Zanini, A.

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0747-7

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“…The sensitivity expected from the analysis of ∼ 159 days of data taken in 2009 is shown in Figure 3. The ANTARES preliminary sensitivity is compared with previous limits from the MACRO [2] and SLIM [3] …”

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Search for nuclearites with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Păvălaş¹

2016

Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015)

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About thirty years ago, strange quark matter (SQM) was hypothesized to be the ground state of hadronic matter and was also suggested as a cold dark matter candidate. Although there is no experimental or astrophysical evidence yet for its existence, SQM may be present in the cosmic radiation as relic particles of the early Universe, or as fragments released in binary strange star collisions or supernovae. The ANTARES neutrino telescope is sensitive to massive and stable SQM particles, called nuclearites. Their velocity is assumed to be β ∼ 10 −3 , typical of objects gravitationally trapped inside the galaxy. Nuclearites reaching the ANTARES depth would yield a large amount of light to the detector, by means of blackbody radiation emitted by the heated water molecules along their path. A dedicated analysis will be presented, as well as the ANTARES sensitivity for a flux of downgoing nuclearites, using data taken in 2009.

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“…[2], for nuclearites of mass M N > 10 14 GeV, while the SLIM (Search for LIght Monopoles) high altitude experiment in Bolivia has set flux upper limits of 1.3 · 10 −15 cm −2 s −1 sr −1 (90% C.L.) [3], for nuclearite masses M N > 10 10 GeV.…”

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Search for nuclearites with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Păvălaş¹

2016

Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015)

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“…Except for n = 0 cases, the gravitational source in (15) vanishes in the center in the x-y plane. Furthermore, this field configuration has planar symmetry in the z direction.…”

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“…Currently direct searches for neutral Q-balls and for electrically charged Q-balls are in progress in Super-Kamiokande II [14] and in the SLIM Experiment [15], respectively. Furthermore, it has been shown that gravitational waves are emitted during Q-ball formation and could be detected by nextgeneration gravitational detectors [16],…”

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Q-tubes andQ-crusts

2011

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We explore equilibrium solutions of non-topological solitons in a general class of scalar field theories which include global U(1) symmetry. We find new types of solutions, tube-shaped and crust-shaped objects, and investigate their stability. Like Q-balls, the new solitons can exist in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, which may responsible for baryon asymmetry and dark matter. Therefore, observational signals of the new solitons would give us more informations on the early universe and supersymmetric theories.

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“…The two telescopes rely on different technologies (scintillators for Explorer, Figure 1. The 90% confidence level upper limit on the flux of nuclearites of experiments with different techniques [7][8][9]12]. The "old" mica limits [12] are dependent from several additional assumptions, respect to the other experiments.…”

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Quark nuggets search using gravitational waves aluminum bar detectors

Ronga

2016

EPJ Web of Conferences

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Abstract. Up to now there is no evidence of supersymmetric WIMPS dark matter. This may suggests to look for more exotic possibilities, for example compact ultra-dense quark nuggets. Nuclearites are an example of compact objects that could be constituent of the dark matter. After a short discussion on nuclearites, the result of a nuclearite search with the gravitational wave bar detectors NAUTILUS and EXPLORER is reported.

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Results of the search for strange quark matter and Q-balls with the SLIM experiment

Cited by 45 publications

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Search for nuclearites with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Search for nuclearites with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

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Quark nuggets search using gravitational waves aluminum bar detectors

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