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Search for Strange Quark Matter and Nuclearites on Board the International Space Station (SQM-ISS): A Future Detector to Search for Massive, Non-Relativistic Objects in Space

Published:2024-08-06 Issue:16 Volume:24 Page:5090
ISSN:1424-8220
Container-title:Sensors
language:en
Short-container-title:Sensors

Author:

Bianchi Massimo¹,Bisconti Francesca¹,Blaksley Carl²^ORCID,Bocci Valerio³^ORCID,Casolino Marco¹²⁴^ORCID,Di Clemente Francesco⁵^ORCID,Drago Alessandro⁵^ORCID,Fuglesang Christer⁶^ORCID,Iacoangeli Francesco³^ORCID,Lattanzi Massimiliano⁷,Marcelli Alessandro¹^ORCID,Marcelli Laura⁴^ORCID,Natoli Paolo⁵,Parizot Etienne⁸,Picozza Piergiorgio¹,Piotrowski Lech Wiktor⁹^ORCID,Plebaniak Zbigniew¹⁴^ORCID,Reali Enzo¹^ORCID,Ricci Marco¹⁰^ORCID,Rizzo Alessandro¹¹^ORCID,Rizzo Gabriele¹²^ORCID,Szabelski Jacek¹³

Affiliation:

1. Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy

2. RIKEN, Wako 351-0198, Japan

3. INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Structure of Rome, 00133 Rome, Italy

4. INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Structure of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy

5. Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, Italy

6. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 11428 Stockholm, Sweden

7. INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Structure of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, Italy

8. APC (Laboratoire Astroparticule & Cosmologie), Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Obs. de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75013 Paris, France

9. Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland

10. INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), National Laboratories of Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Italy

11. ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Radioprotection Institute (IRP), 00196 Rome, Italy

12. Longviews S.r.l., 00134 Rome, Italy

13. Stefan Batory Academy of Applied Sciences, Stefana Batorego 64C, 96-100 Skierniewice, Poland

Abstract

SQM-ISS is a detector that will search from the International Space Station for massive particles possibly present among the cosmic rays. Among them, we mention strange quark matter, Q-Balls, lumps of fermionic exotic compact stars, Primordial Black Holes, mirror matter, Fermi balls, etc. These compact, dense objects would be much heavier than normal nuclei, have velocities of galaxy-bound systems, and would be deeply penetrating. The detector is based on a stack of scintillator and piezoelectric elements which can provide information on both the charge state and mass, with the additional timing information allowing to determine the speed of the particle, searching for particles with velocities of the order of galactic rotation speed (v ≲ 250 km/s). In this work, we describe the apparatus and its observational capabilities.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/16/5090/pdf

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