Energy losses of Q-balls

After a short review of Q-balls properties, in this paper, we discuss their interaction with matter, and their energy losses in the earth, for a large range of velocities. These calculations are used to compute the fractional angular acceptance of a detector at Gran Sasso laboratory. Furthermore, we computed the light yield in liquid scintillators, the ionization in stream er tubes and the restricted energy loss in the CR39 nuclear track detector. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.