Strangelets accelerated by pulsars in galactic cosmic rays

Details Strangelets accelerated by pulsars in galactic cosmic rays Strangelets accelerated by pulsars in galactic cosmic rays

2006-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610237v2

Phys.Rev.D74:127303,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.127303

It is shown that nuggets of strange quark matter may be extracted from the surface of pulsars and accelerated by strong electric fields to high energies if pulsars are strange stars with the crusts, comprised of nuggets embedded in a uniform electron background. Such high energy nuggets called usually strangelets give an observable contribution into galactic cosmic rays and may be detected by the upcoming cosmic ray experiment Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02 on the International Space Station.

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