Strangelet propagation and cosmic ray flux
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The galactic propagation of cosmic ray strangelets is described and the resulting flux is calculated for a wide range of parameters as a prerequisite for strangelet searches in lunar soil and with an Earth orbiting magnetic spectrometer, AMS-02. While the inherent uncertainties are large, flux predictions at a measurable level are obtained for reasonable choices of parameters if strange quark matter is absolutely stable. This allows a direct test of the strange matter hypothesis.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411538,
title = {Strangelet propagation and cosmic ray flux},
author = {Jes Madsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411538},
year = {2007}
}
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