Exploring detection of nuclearites in a large liquid scintillator neutrino detector

Abstract

We take the JUNO experiment as an example to explore nuclearites in the future large liquid scintillator detector. Comparing to the previous calculations, the visible energy of nuclearites across the liquid scintillator will be reestimated for the liquid scintillator based detector. Then the JUNO sensitivities to the nuclearite flux are presented. It is found that the JUNO projected sensitivities can be better than $7.7\times 10^{-17}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-2}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}\mathrm{s}{\mathrm{r}}^{-1}$ for the nuclearite mass $10^{15}\mathrm{GeV}\le M\le 10^{24}$ GeV and initial velocity $10^{-4}\le {\beta }_0\le 10^{-1}$ with a 20 year running. Note that the JUNO will give the most stringent limits for downgoing nuclearites with $1.6\times 10^{13}\mathrm{GeV}\le M\le 4.0\times 10^{15}$ GeV and a typical galactic velocity ${\beta }_0=10^{-3}$.

arXiv comment12 pages, 5 figures, minor changes in title and text, published in Phys. Rev. D

References in corpus (19)

• First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance
• Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay
• Neutrino Physics with JUNO
• New results on solar neutrino fluxes from 192 days of Borexino data
• The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA
• New constraints on primordial black holes abundance from femtolensing of gamma-ray bursts
• An Indirect Search for WIMPs in the Sun using 3109.6 days of upward-going muons in Super-Kamiokande
• Experimental Limits on Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter from the First Two Years of Kepler Data
• Very Small Strangelets
• Mass Ejection by Strange Star Mergers and Observational Implications
• Nuclearite search with the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso
• Results of the Search for Strange Quark Matter and Q-balls with the SLIM Experiment
• Seismic Search for Strange Quark Nuggets
• New solutions for the color-flavor locked strangelets
• Surprises from the search for quark-gluon plasma? When was quark-gluon plasma seen?
• Light propagation and fluorescence quantum yields in liquid scintillators
• Color-flavor locked strangelets and their detection
• Direct detection and solar capture of dark matter with momentum and velocity dependent elastic scattering
• Strangelet spectra from type II supernovae

Cited by in corpus (3)

• JUNO Physics and Detector
• Results of search for magnetized quark-nugget dark matter from radial impacts on Earth
• Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope