Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope
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 %according to the model of de R\'{u}jula and Glashow 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 () was considered for this study. The mass threshold for detecting these particles at the detector level is \mbox{ GeV/c}. Upper limits on the nuclearite flux for masses up to GeV/c at the level of cm s sr 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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@article{arxiv.2208.11689,
title = {Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope},
author = {ANTARES Collaboration and A. Albert and S. Alves and M. André and M. Ardid and S. Ardid and J. -J. Aubert and J. Aublin and B. Baret and S. Basa and B. Belhorma and M. Bendahman and F. Benfenati and V. Bertin and S. Biagi and M. Bissinger and J. Boumaaza and M. Bouta and M. C. Bouwhuis and H. Brânzaş and R. Bruijn and J. Brunner and J. Busto and B. Caiffi and D. Calvo and A. Capone and L. Caramete and J. Carr and V. Carretero and S. Celli and M. Chabab and T. N. Chau and R. Cherkaoui El Moursli and T. Chiarusi and M. Circella and J. A. B. Coelho and A. Coleiro and R. Coniglione and P. Coyle and A. Creusot and A. F. Díaz and G. de Wasseige and B. De Martino and C. Distefano and I. Di Palma and A. Domi and C. Donzaud and D. Dornic and D. Drouhin and T. Eberl and T. van Eeden and D. van Eijk and N. El Khayati and A. Enzenhöfer and P. Fermani and G. Ferrara and F. Filippini and L. Fusco and J. García and P. Gay and H. Glotin and R. Gozzini and R. Gracia Ruiz and K. Graf and C. Guidi and S. Hallmann and H. van Haren and A. J. Heijboer and Y. Hello and J. J. Hernández-Rey and J. Hößl and J. Hofestädt and F. Huang and G. Illuminati and C. W. James and B. Jisse-Jung and M. de Jong and P. de Jong and M. Kadler and O. Kalekin and U. Katz and A. Kouchner and I. Kreykenbohm and V. Kulikovskiy and R. Lahmann and M. Lamoureux and R. Le Breton and D. Lefèvre and E. Leonora and G. Levi and S. Le Stum and D. Lopez-Coto and S. Loucatos and L. Maderer and J. Manczak and M. Marcelin and A. Margiotta and A. Marinelli and J. A. Martínez-Mora and K. Melis and P. Migliozzi and A. Moussa and R. Muller and L. Nauta and S. Navas and E. Nezri and B. Ó Fearraigh and A. Păun and G. E. Păvălaş and C. Pellegrino and M. Perrin-Terrin and V. Pestel and P. Piattelli and C. Pieterse and C. Poirè and V. Popa and T. Pradier and N. Randazzo and D. Real and S. Reck and G. Riccobene and A. Romanov and A. Sánchez-Losa and F. Salesa Greus and D. F. E. Samtleben and M. Sanguineti and P. Sapienza and J. Schnabel and J. Schumann and F. Schüssler and J. Seneca and M. Spurio and Th. Stolarczyk and M. Taiuti and Y. Tayalati and S. J. Tingay and B. Vallage and V. Van Elewyck and F. Versari and S. Viola and D. Vivolo and J. Wilms and S. Zavatarelli and A. Zegarelli and J. D. Zornoza and J. Zúñiga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.11689},
year = {2024}
}
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17 pages, 7 figures