Stable quark matter in cosmic rays?

Details Stable quark matter in cosmic rays? Stable quark matter in cosmic rays?

2005-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512512v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 29th Johns Hopkins Workshop on current problems in particle theory: Strong Matter in the Heavens

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Stable 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.

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