2004/11/30 by Jes Madsen · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.71.014026
published as Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 014026 · Published version
openalex publication_date 2005/01/25 · arxiv created 2005/02/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The galactic propagation of cosmic ray strangelets is described and the resulting flux is calculated for a wide range of parameters as a prerequisite for strangelet searches in lunar soil and with an Earth orbiting magnetic spectrometer, AMS-02. While the inherent uncertainties are large, flux predictions at a measurable level are obtained for reasonable choices of parameters if strange quark matter is absolutely stable. This allows a direct test of the strange matter hypothesis.