KM3NeT sensitivity to a flux of down-going nuclearites
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21670%2F24%3A00381642" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21670/24:00381642 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.1382" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.1382</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.444.1382" target="_blank" >10.22323/1.444.1382</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
KM3NeT sensitivity to a flux of down-going nuclearites
Original language description
Nuclearites are hypothetical, massive particles of Strange Quark Matter (SQM) introduced by E. Witten in 1984. They are composed of approximately equal quantities of up, down, and strange quarks. Due to the third quark flavor component which leads to a total energy lower than in the case of nuclear matter, SQM could represent the ground state of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The detection and characterization of nuclearites could also bring important ontributions to the Dark Matter physics. KM3NeT is a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes placed in the Mediterranean Sea, optimized for the search for high-energy cosmic neutrinos (KM3NeT/ARCA) and the study of neutrino properties with atmospheric neutrinos (KM3NeT/ORCA). Nuclearites above a mass threshold of 1013 GeV/c2 having velocities of approximately 250 km/s could reach the ground and interact in the detector through elastic collisions. A fraction of the energy generated in these collisions is dissipated as visible blackbody radiation. A customized Monte Carlo (MC) program was used to simulate the propagation and the signal of nuclearites inside the KM3NeT detector. The background considered for this study is represented by the 40 K decay, which is added during the filtering stage of the MC output, and by the simulated atmospheric muons. The analysis uses selection cuts in order to remove the main background of atmospheric muons and to estimate the sensitivity of the detector. Preliminary results on the sensitivity of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope to a flux of massive down-going nuclearites will be presented.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LM2023063" target="_blank" >LM2023063: Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane – participation of the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
38th International Cosmic Ray Conference
ISBN
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ISSN
1824-8039
e-ISSN
1824-8039
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1-10
Publisher name
SISSA-The International School for Advanced Studies
Place of publication
Trieste
Event location
Nagoya
Event date
Jul 26, 2023
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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