Detection of magnetized quark-nuggets, a candidate for dark matter
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- 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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- VanDevender Enterprises LLC, Albuquerque, NM (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); VanDevender Enterprises, LLC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1399497
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2017-3127J
Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322; 651991
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; cosmology; particle astrophysics
Citation Formats
VanDevender, J. Pace, VanDevender, Aaron P., Sloan, T., Swaim, Criss, Wilson, Peter, Schmitt, Robert. G., Zakirov, Rinat, Blum, Josh, Cross, James L., and McGinley, Niall. Detection of magnetized quark-nuggets, a candidate for dark matter. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09087-3.
VanDevender, J. Pace, VanDevender, Aaron P., Sloan, T., Swaim, Criss, Wilson, Peter, Schmitt, Robert. G., Zakirov, Rinat, Blum, Josh, Cross, James L., & McGinley, Niall. Detection of magnetized quark-nuggets, a candidate for dark matter. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09087-3
VanDevender, J. Pace, VanDevender, Aaron P., Sloan, T., Swaim, Criss, Wilson, Peter, Schmitt, Robert. G., Zakirov, Rinat, Blum, Josh, Cross, James L., and McGinley, Niall. Fri .
"Detection of magnetized quark-nuggets, a candidate for dark matter". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09087-3. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1399497.
@article{osti_1399497,
title = {Detection of magnetized quark-nuggets, a candidate for dark matter},
author = {VanDevender, J. Pace and VanDevender, Aaron P. and Sloan, T. and Swaim, Criss and Wilson, Peter and Schmitt, Robert. G. and Zakirov, Rinat and Blum, Josh and Cross, James L. and McGinley, Niall},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-09087-3},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = ,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {8}
}
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