Rare Particle Searches with the high altitude SLIM experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The search for rare particles in the cosmic radiation remains one of the main aims of non-accelerator particle astrophysics. Experiments at high altitude allow lower mass thresholds with respect to detectors at sea level or underground. The SLIM experiment is a large array of nuclear track detectors located at the Chacaltaya High Altitude Laboratory (5290 m a.s.l.). The preliminary results from the analysis of a part of the first 236 sq.m exposed for more than 3.6 y are here reported. The detector is sensitive to Intermediate Mass Magnetic Monopoles and to SQM nuggets and Q-balls, which are possible Dark Matter candidates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0602036,
title = {Rare Particle Searches with the high altitude SLIM experiment},
author = {S. Balestra and S. Cecchini and F. Fabbri and G. Giacomelli and R. Giacomelli and M. Giorgini and A. Kumar and S. Manzoor and J. McDonald and A. Margiotta and E. Medinaceli and J. Nogales and L. Patrizii and V. Popa and I. Quereshi and O. Saavedra and G. Sher and M. Shahzad and M. Spurio and R. Ticona and V. Togo and A. Velarde and A. Zanini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0602036},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Paper presented by G. Giacomelli at the European Conference on High Energy Physics, July 21-27 2005, Lisboa, Portugal