Speaker
Thomas Paul
(Lehman College - CUNY)
Description
Macroscopic dark matter (or macro) provides a broad class of alternative
candidates to particle dark matter. These candidates would transfer
energy primarily through elastic scattering, and this linear energy
deposition would produce observable signals if a macro were to traverse
the atmosphere. We study the fluorescence emission produced by a macro
passing through the atmosphere. We estimate the sensitivity of EUSO-SPB2
to constrain the two-dimensional parameter space ($\sigma$ vs. $M$),
where $M$ is the macro mass and $\sigma$ its cross sectional area.
Keywords
macro; microscopic dark matter; EUSO-SPB2
| Subcategory | Experimental Results |
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Primary authors
Thomas Paul
(Lehman College - CUNY)
Angela Olinto
(The University of Chicago)
Luis Anchordoqui
(Lehman College, City University of New York)
