https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328009002
Sensitivity of KM3NeT/ARCA to a flux of nuclearites
1
Institute of Space Science,
RO-077125
Bucharest,
Măgurele,
Romania
2
University of Bucharest – Faculty of Physics,
RO-077125
Măgurele, Romania
* e-mail: alice.paun@spacescience.ro
Published online: 20 March 2023
Over the past decades, theories have predicted the existence of heavy compact objects containing an extremely dense form of exotic matter named Strange Quark Matter (SQM). This type of hypothetical matter is composed of nearly equal quantities of up, down and strange quarks and is supposed to be the ground state of Quantum Chromodynamics. Nuclearites are the massive component of SQM particles. Some studies show that nuclearites heavier than 1013 GeV with velocities of approximately 250 km/s could reach the Earth and could be observed by neutrino telescopes. In this paper, Monte Carlo simulations are used in order to evaluate the preliminary results on the sensitivity of KM3NeT/ARCA to a flux of down-going nuclearites.
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