Search for nuclearites using the TL stack detector

Citation
K. Okei et al., Search for nuclearites using the TL stack detector, J PHYS G-NU, 27(4), 2001, pp. 855-865
Citations number
17
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
ISSN journal
0954-3899 → ACNP
Volume
27
Issue
4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
855 - 865
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-3899(200104)27:4<855:SFNUTT>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
It is shown that a thermoluminescent (TL) sheet stack detector, consisting of TL sheets and medical x-ray films, is an effective nuclearite detector. Nuclearite energy loss is not explicitly used for the estimation of the TL stack sensitivity to nuclearites, but implicitly by considering ways of ene rgy deposition. The 90% confidence level flux limit obtained with the TL st ack detector is given for a certain B-M range of nuclearites. For nuclearit es of beta = 10(-3) at sea level and M greater than or equal to 2 x 10(15) GeV c(-2), the limit is 1.3 x 10(-13) s(-1) cm(-2) sr(-1).