Prospects for macroscopic dark matter detection at space-based and suborbital experiments
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-11-16 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
We compare two different formalisms for modeling the energy deposition of macroscopically sized/massive quark nuggets (a.k.a. macros) in the Earth's atmosphere. We show that for a reference mass of 1 g, there is a discrepancy in the macro luminosity of about 14 orders of magnitude between the predictions of the two formalisms. Armed with our finding we estimate the sensitivity for macro detection at space-based (Mini-EUSO and POEMMA) and suborbital (EUSO-SPB2) experiments.
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@article{arxiv.2104.05131,
title = {Prospects for macroscopic dark matter detection at space-based and suborbital experiments},
author = {Luis A. Anchordoqui and Mario E. Bertaina and Marco Casolino and Johannes Eser and John F. Krizmanic and Angela V. Olinto and A. Nepomuk Otte and Thomas C. Paul and Lech W. Piotrowski and Mary Hall Reno and Fred Sarazin and Kenji Shinozaki and Jorge F. Soriano and Tonia M. Venters and Lawrence Wiencke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05131},
year = {2021}
}
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5 pages revtex, 3 figures