Daemon detection experiment

Abstract

A month-long observation of two horizontal ZnS(Ag) scintillating screens, 1 m^2 in area and located one above the other a certain distance apart, revealed about 10 correlated signals, whose time shift corresponds to an average velocity of only ~10-15 km/s. We assign the origin of these signals to the negative daemons, i.e. electrically charged Planckian particles, which supposedly form a part of the DM in the Galactic disk and were captured into the near-Earth orbits. The estimated flux of daemons is >=10^-4 m^-2 s^-1. The key part in the detection of daemons is played apparently by two processes: (i) the daemon shedding the captured heavy nucleus in a few tens of mks as a result of a relatively rapid decay of the daemon-containing nucleons, and (ii) emission of numerous Auger electrons and nuclear particles occurring in the next capture or recapture of a (heavier) nucleus by the daemon.

10 LaTeX pages, 1 EPS figure. This version contains an improved interpretation of the experimental data presented in the previous submission

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