PT Journal
AU ANTARES Collaboration (Albert, Aea
   Alves, S
   Calvo, D
   Carretero, V
   Gozzini, R
   Hernandez-Rey, JJ
   Manczak, J
   Pieterse, C
   Real, D
   Sanchez-Losa, A
   Salesa Greus, F
   Zornoza, JD
   Zuñiga, J
TI Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope
SO Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JI J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
PY 2023
BP 012
EP 19pp
VL 01
IS 1
DI 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/012
LA English
DE dark matter detectors; neutrino detectors
AB 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.
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