Mini-EUSO is a small orbital telescope with a field of view of 44◦ × 44◦, observing the night-time Earth mostly in 320-420 nm band. Its time resolution spanning from microseconds (triggered) to milliseconds (untriggered) and more than 300 × 300 km of the ground covered, already allowed it to register thousands of meteors. Such detections make the telescope a suitable tool in the search for hypothetical heavy compact objects, which would leave trails of light in the atmosphere due to their high density and speed. The most prominent example are the nuclearites – hypothetical lumps of strange quark matter that could be stabler and denser than the nuclear matter. In this paper, we show potential limits on the flux of nuclearites after collecting 42 hours of observations data. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons.

Towards observations of nuclearites in Mini-EUSO

Anzalone A.;Arnone E.;Bagheri M.;Barghini D.;Bartocci S.;Bertaina M.;Bisconti F.;Blanc N.;Bozzo E.;Casolino M.;Cassardo C.;Cellino A.;Cotto G.;Cremonini R.;Ferrarese S.;Franchini S.;Galeotti P.;Gardiol D.;Golzio A.;Kajino F.;Manfrin M.;Miyamoto H.;Neronov A.;Pagliaro A.;Perfetto F.;Piraino S.;Plebaniak Z.;Pollini A.;Scagliola A.;Shinozaki K.;Suzuki M.;Vigorito C.;
2022-01-01

Abstract

Mini-EUSO is a small orbital telescope with a field of view of 44◦ × 44◦, observing the night-time Earth mostly in 320-420 nm band. Its time resolution spanning from microseconds (triggered) to milliseconds (untriggered) and more than 300 × 300 km of the ground covered, already allowed it to register thousands of meteors. Such detections make the telescope a suitable tool in the search for hypothetical heavy compact objects, which would leave trails of light in the atmosphere due to their high density and speed. The most prominent example are the nuclearites – hypothetical lumps of strange quark matter that could be stabler and denser than the nuclear matter. In this paper, we show potential limits on the flux of nuclearites after collecting 42 hours of observations data. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons.
2022
37 th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)
Berlin
July 12th – 23rd, 2021
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Orbits; Compact objects; Field of views; Night time; Nuclear matters; Nuclearites; Observation data; Orbital telescopes; Potential limits; Quark matter; Time-resolution; Telescopes
Abdellaoui G.; Abe S.; Adams J.H.; Allard D.; Alonso G.; Anchordoqui L.; Anzalone A.; Arnone E.; Asano K.; Attallah R.; Attoui H.; Ave Pernas M.; Bagh...espandi
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