Strangelets accelerated by pulsars in galactic cosmic rays
天体物理学
2008-11-26 v2 高能物理 - 唯象学
核理论
摘要
It is shown that nuggets of strange quark matter may be extracted from the surface of pulsars and accelerated by strong electric fields to high energies if pulsars are strange stars with the crusts, comprised of nuggets embedded in a uniform electron background. Such high energy nuggets called usually strangelets give an observable contribution into galactic cosmic rays and may be detected by the upcoming cosmic ray experiment Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02 on the International Space Station.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0610237,
title = {Strangelets accelerated by pulsars in galactic cosmic rays},
author = {K. S. Cheng and V. V. Usov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0610237},
year = {2008}
}
备注
3 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D