Published December 2006
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Journal article
Search for strangelets in lunar soil
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 (United States)
Description
The possible existence of strangelets has been hypothesized for a long time but has not been confirmed experimentally. Our experiment aims to search for strangelets in lunar soil samples, where the predicted concentration of one oxygen strangelet per 1016-1017 normal oxygen atoms is 104 times higher than that on earth. The tandem Van-de-Graaff accelerator at Yale is used as an atomic mass spectrometer to separate possible strangelets from normal nuclei. By exploiting the strangelets' signature low charge to mass ratio, our own designed detection system can identify strangelets at a sensitivity level of better than 1 per 1017 atoms
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/32/S465/g6_12_s57.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (ISSN 1361-6471) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/32/S465/g6_12_s57.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0954-3899/32/12/S57;
- PII
- S0954-3899(06)25645-7;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 32
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. S465-S468
- ISSN
- 0954-3899
- CODEN
- JPGPED
Conference
- Title
- International conference on strangeness in quark matter
- Acronym
- SQM 2006
- Dates
- 26-31 Mar 2006
- Place
- Los Angeles, CA (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38010616
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ATOMS; DETECTION; MASS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MOON; NUCLEI; OXYGEN; SENSITIVITY; SOILS; VAN DE GRAAFF ACCELERATORS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NONMETALS; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS
Optional Information
- Collaborations
- LSSS Collaboration