Nuclearite search with the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso

Authors
Ambrosio, M Antolini, R Aramo, C Auriemma, G Baldini, A Barbarino, GC Barish, BC Battistoni, G Bellotti, R Bemporad, C Bernardini, P Bilokon, H Bisi, V Bloise, C Bower, C Bussino, S Cafagna, F Calicchio, M Campana, D Carboni, M Castellano, M Cecchini, S Cei, F Chiarella, V Choudhary, BC Coutu, S De Benedictis, L De Cataldo, G Dekhissi, H De Marzo, E De Mitri, I Derkaoui, J De Vincenzi, M Di Credico, A Erriquez, O Favuzzi, C Forti, C Fusco, P Giacomelli, G Giannini, G Giglietto, N Giorgini, M Grassi, M Gray, L Grillo, A Guarino, F Guarnaccia, P Gustavino, C Habig, A Hanson, K Heinz, R Huang, Y Iarocci, E Katsavounidis, E Kearns, E Kim, H Kyriazopoulou, S Lamanna, E Lane, C Lari, T Levin, DS Lipari, P Longley, NP Longo, MJ Maaroufi, F Mancarella, G Mandrioli, G Manzoor, S Margiotta, A Marini, A Martello, D Marzari-Chiesa, A Mazziotta, MN Michael, DG Mikheyev, S Miller, L Monacelli, P Montaruli, T Monteno, M Mufson, S Musser, J Nicolo, D Orth, C Osteria, G Ouchrif, M Palamara, O Patera, V Patrizii, L Pazzi, R Peck, CW Perrone, L Petrera, S Pistilli, P Popa, V Pugliese, V Raino, A Rastelli, A Reynoldson, J Ronga, F Rubizzo, U Satriano, C Satta, L Scapparone, E Scholberg, K Sciubba, A Serra, P Severi, M Sioli, M Sitta, M Spinelli, P Spinetti, M Spurio, M Steinberg, R Stone, JL Sulak, LR Surdo, A Tarle, G Togo, V Ugolotti, D Vakili, M Walter, CW Webb, R
Citation
M. Ambrosio et al., Nuclearite search with the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso, EUR PHY J C, 13(3), 2000, pp. 453-458
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
ISSN journal
14346044 → ACNP
Volume
13
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Pages
453 - 458
Database
ISI
SICI code
1434-6044(200004)13:3<453:NSWTMD>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
In this paper we present the results of a search for nuclearites in the pen etrating cosmic radiation using the scintillator and track-etch subdetector s of the MACRO apparatus. The analyses cover the beta = v/c range at the de tector depth (3700 hg/cm(2)) 10(-5) < beta < 1; for beta = 2 x 10(-3) the f lux limit is 2.7 x 10(-16) cm(-2)s(-1)sr(-1) for an isotropic flux of nucle arites, and twice this value for a flux of downgoing nuclearites.