Trapping of strangelets in the geomagnetic field

Details Trapping of strangelets in the geomagnetic field Trapping of strangelets in the geomagnetic field

2007-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/0707.3280v1

Phys.Rev.D77:043003,2008

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

10 pp., 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.043003

Strangelets coming from the interstellar medium (ISM) are an interesting target to experiments searching for evidence of this hypothetic state of hadronic matter. We entertain the possibility of a {\it trapped} strangelet population, quite analogous to ordinary nuclei and electron belts. For a population of strangelets to be trapped by the geomagnetic field, these incoming particles would have to fulfill certain conditions, namely having magnetic rigidities above the geomagnetic cutoff and below a certain threshold for adiabatic motion to hold. We show in this work that, for fully ionized strangelets, there is a narrow window for stable trapping. An estimate of the stationary population is presented and the dominant loss mechanisms discussed. It is shown that the population would be substantially enhanced with respect to the ISM flux (up to two orders of magnitude) due to quasi-stable trapping.

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