%0 Journal Article
%T Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope
%A ANTARES Collaboration (Albert, A. et al
%A Alves, S.
%A Calvo, D.
%A Carretero, V.
%A Gozzini, R.
%A Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
%A Manczak, J.
%A Pieterse, C.
%A Real, D.
%A Sanchez-Losa, A.
%A Salesa Greus, F.
%A Zornoza, J. D.
%A Zuñiga, J.
%J Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
%D 2023
%V 01
%N 1
%I IOP Publishing Ltd
%@ 1475-7516
%G English
%F ANTARESCollaborationAlbert_etal2023
%O WOS:001090397800002
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5790), last updated on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:35:55 +0000
%X 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 (beta = 10(-3)) was considered for this study. The mass threshold for detecting these particles at the detector level is 4 x 10(13) GeV/c(2). Upper limits on the nuclearite flux for masses up to 10(17) GeV/c(2) at the level of similar to 5 x 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.
%K dark matter detectors
%K neutrino detectors
%R 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/012
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11689
%U https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/012
%P 012-19pp