Detection of magnetized quark-nuggets, a candidate for dark matter

VanDevender, J. Pace; VanDevender, Aaron P.; Sloan, T.; Swaim, Criss; Wilson, Peter; Schmitt, Robert. G.; Zakirov, Rinat; Blum, Josh; Cross, James L.; McGinley, Niall

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09087-3

Title: Detection of magnetized quark-nuggets, a candidate for dark matter

Journal Article · Fri Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Scientific Reports

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09087-3 · OSTI ID:1399497

VanDevender, J. Pace ^[1]; VanDevender, Aaron P. ^[2]; Sloan, T. ^[3]; Swaim, Criss ^[4]; Wilson, Peter ^[5]; Schmitt, Robert. G. ^[6]; Zakirov, Rinat ^[1]; Blum, Josh ^[1]; Cross, James L. ^[7]; McGinley, Niall ^[8]

VanDevender Enterprises LLC, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Founders Fund, San Francisco, CA (United States)
Lancaster Univ. (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
The Pineridge Group, Boulder, CO (United States)
Ulster Univ., Coleraine, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom). School of Geography and Environmental Sciences
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Cross Marine Projects, American Fork, UT (United States)
Ardaturr, Letterkenny (Ireland)

Quark nuggets are theoretical objects composed of approximately equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks and are also called strangelets and nuclearites. They have been proposed as a candidate for dark matter, which constitutes ~85% of the universe’s mass and which has been a mystery for decades. Previous efforts to detect quark nuggets assumed that the nuclear-density core interacts directly with the surrounding matter so the stopping power is minimal. Tatsumi found that quark nuggets could well exist as a ferromagnetic liquid with a ~10¹²-T magnetic field. We find that the magnetic field produces a magnetopause with surrounding plasma, as the earth’s magnetic field produces a magnetopause with the solar wind, and substantially increases their energy deposition rate in matter. We use the magnetopause model to compute the energy deposition as a function of quark-nugget mass and to analyze testing the quark-nugget hypothesis for dark matter by observations in air, water, and land. We conclude the water option is most promising.

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Research Organization:: VanDevender Enterprises LLC, Albuquerque, NM (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); VanDevender Enterprises, LLC (United States)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

OSTI ID:: 1399497

Report Number(s):: SAND--2017-3127J; 651991

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Vol. 7; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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