Stable quark matter in cosmic rays?

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dc.creatorMadsen, Jes
dc.date2005-12-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:49:10Z
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dc.descriptionStable lumps of quark matter may be present in cosmic rays at a flux level, which can be detected by high precision cosmic ray experiments sensitive to anomalous "nuclei" with high mass-to-charge ratio. The properties of these lumps, called strangelets, are described, and so is the production and propagation of strangelets in cosmic rays. Two experiments underway which are sensitive to a strangelet flux in the predicted range are briefly described. Finally it is summarized how strangelets circumvent the acceleration problem encountered by conventional candidates for ultra-high energy cosmic rays and move the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff to energies well above the observed maximum energies.
dc.description16 pages, 29th Johns Hopkins Workshop on current problems in particle theory: Strong Matter in the Heavens
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512512
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512512
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/104241
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleStable quark matter in cosmic rays?
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