@misc{10481/86092,
year = {2022},
month = {12},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/86092},
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 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 (β = 10−3) was considered
for this study. The mass threshold for detecting these particles at the detector level is
4 × 1013 GeV/c2. Upper limits on the nuclearite flux for masses up to 1017 GeV/c2
at the level of ∼ 5 × 10−17 cm−2 s−1 sr−1 are obtained. These are the first upper
limits on nuclearites established with a neutrino telescope and the most stringent
ever set for Galactic velocities.},
organization = {Commission Europeenne (FEDER fund)},
organization = {Marie Curie Actions
European Union (EU)},
organization = {Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación, Investigación y Universidades (MCIU): Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento PGC2018-096663-B-C41, PGC2018-096663-A-C42,
	
	PGC2018-096663-B-C43,
	
	PGC2018-096663-B-C44,
	
	PID2021-124591NB-C41,
	
	PID2021-124591NB-C42,
	
	PID2021-124591NB-C43},
organization = {Center for Forestry Research & Experimentation (CIEF)
	PROMETEO/2020/019,
	
	GRISOLIA/2018/119,
	
	GRISOLIA/2021/192,
	
	CIDEGENT/2018/034,
	
	CIDEGENT/2019/043,
	
	CIDEGENT/2020/049,
	
	CIDEGENT/2021/023},
organization = {Junta de Andalucía
	A-FQM-053-UGR18},
organization = {La Caixa Foundation
	LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019},
organization = {EU: MSC program, Spain
	101025085},
title = {Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/012},
author = {Albert, Arnaud and Díaz García, Antonio Francisco and López Coto, Daniel and Navas Concha, Sergio and ANTARES Collaboration},
}