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EUSO-SPB2 sensitivity to macroscopic dark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-10-07 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Macroscopic dark matter (or macro) provides a broad class of alternative candidates to particle dark matter. These candidates would transfer energy primarily through elastic scattering, and this linear energy deposition would produce observable signals if a macro were to traverse the atmosphere. We study the fluorescence emission produced by a macro passing through the atmosphere. We estimate the sensitivity of EUSO-SPB2 to constrain the two-dimensional parameter space (σ\sigma vs. MM), where MM is the macro mass and σ\sigma its cross sectional area.

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@article{arxiv.2104.01152,
  title  = {EUSO-SPB2 sensitivity to macroscopic dark matter},
  author = {Thomas C. Paul and Sarah T. Reese and Luis A. Anchordoqui and Angela V. Olinto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01152},
  year   = {2025}
}

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To be published in the Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2012), Berlin, 12 -23 July 2021

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