TY  - JOUR
AU  - ANTARES Collaboration (Albert, A. et al
AU  - Alves, S.
AU  - Calvo, D.
AU  - Carretero, V.
AU  - Gozzini, R.
AU  - Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
AU  - Manczak, J.
AU  - Pieterse, C.
AU  - Real, D.
AU  - Sanchez-Losa, A.
AU  - Salesa Greus, F.
AU  - Zornoza, J. D.
AU  - Zuñiga, J.
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope
T2  - J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
JO  - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
SP  - 012
EP  - 19pp
VL  - 01
IS  - 1
PB  - IOP Publishing Ltd
KW  - dark matter detectors
KW  - 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.
SN  - 1475-7516
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11689
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/012
DO  - 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/012
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:001090397800002
ID  - ANTARESCollaborationAlbert_etal2023
ER  -