| Article | |
| Report number | hep-ex/0602036 |
| Title | Rare Particle Searches with the high altitude SLIM experiment |
| Author(s) | Balestra, S ; Cecchini, S ; Fabbri, F ; Giacomelli, G ; Giacomelli, R ; Giorgini, M ; Kumar, A ; Manzoor, S ; McDonald, J ; Margiotta, A Show all 23 authors |
| Publication | 2005 |
| Imprint | 21 Feb 2006 |
| In: | PoS HEP2005 (2006) 018 |
| In: | International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics, Lisbon, Portugal, 21 - 27 Jul 2005, pp.018 |
| DOI | 10.22323/1.021.0018 |
| Subject category | Particle Physics - Experiment |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN SPS SLIM |
| Abstract | The search for rare particles in the cosmic radiation remains one of the main aims of non-accelerator particle astrophysics. Experiments at high altitude allow lower mass thresholds with respect to detectors at sea level or underground. The SLIM experiment is a large array of nuclear track detectors located at the Chacaltaya High Altitude Laboratory (5290 m a.s.l.). The preliminary results from the analysis of a part of the first 236 sq.m exposed for more than 3.6 y are here reported. The detector is sensitive to Intermediate Mass Magnetic Monopoles and to SQM nuggets and Q-balls, which are possible Dark Matter candidates. |
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