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Exploring detection of nuclearites in a large liquid scintillator neutrino detector

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-01-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We take the JUNO experiment as an example to explore nuclearites in the future large liquid scintillator detector. Comparing to the previous calculations, the visible energy of nuclearites across the liquid scintillator will be reestimated for the liquid scintillator based detector. Then the JUNO sensitivities to the nuclearite flux are presented. It is found that the JUNO projected sensitivities can be better than 7.7×1017cm2s1sr17.7 \times 10^{-17} {\rm cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1}} for the nuclearite mass 1015  GeVM102410^{15} \; {\rm GeV} \leq M \leq 10^{24} GeV and initial velocity 104β010110^{-4} \leq \beta_0 \leq 10^{-1} with a 20 year running. Note that the JUNO will give the most stringent limits for downgoing nuclearites with 1.6×1013  GeVM4.0×10151.6 \times 10^{13} \; {\rm GeV} \leq M \leq 4.0 \times 10^{15} GeV and a typical galactic velocity β0=103\beta_0 = 10^{-3}.

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@article{arxiv.1611.00166,
  title  = {Exploring detection of nuclearites in a large liquid scintillator neutrino detector},
  author = {Wan-Lei Guo and Cheng-Jun Xia and Tao Lin and Zhi-Min Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.00166},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures, minor changes in title and text, published in Phys. Rev. D