Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope
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2022-12-10Referencia bibliográfica
Published version: A. Albert et al. Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope. JCAP01(2023)012. [https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/012]
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Commission Europeenne (FEDER fund); Marie Curie Actions European Union (EU); 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; 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; Junta de Andalucía A-FQM-053-UGR18; La Caixa Foundation LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019; EU: MSC program, Spain 101025085Resumen
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.