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Jordan JR, Baum S, Stengel P, Ferrari A, Morone MC, Sala P, Spitz J. Measuring Changes in the Atmospheric Neutrino Rate over Gigayear Timescales. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:231802. [PMID: 33337188 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.231802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Measuring the cosmic ray flux over timescales comparable to the age of the Solar System, ∼4.5 Gyr, could provide a new window on the history of the Earth, the Solar System, and even our Galaxy. We present a technique to indirectly measure the rate of cosmic rays as a function of time using the imprints of atmospheric neutrinos in "paleo-detectors," natural minerals that record damage tracks from nuclear recoils. Minerals commonly found on Earth are ≲1 Gyr old, providing the ability to look back across cosmic ray history on timescales of the same order as the age of the Solar System. Given a collection of differently aged samples dated with reasonable accuracy, this technique is particularly well-suited to measuring historical changes in the cosmic ray flux at Earth and is broadly applicable in astrophysics and geophysics.
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- Johnathon R Jordan
- University of Michigan, 450 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
- The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Alba Nova, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Alba Nova, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Physics Department, University of Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
- INFN Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Milano, via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- University of Michigan, 450 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Drukier AK, Baum S, Freese K, Górski M, Stengel P. Paleo-detectors: Searching for dark matter with ancient minerals. Int J Clin Exp Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.99.043014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Bendtz K, Milstead D, Hächler HP, Hirt AM, Mermod P, Michael P, Sloan T, Tegner C, Thorarinsson SB. Search for magnetic monopoles in polar volcanic rocks. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 110:121803. [PMID: 25166793 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.121803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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For a broad range of values of magnetic monopole mass and charge, the abundance of monopoles trapped inside Earth would be expected to be enhanced in the mantle beneath the geomagnetic poles. A search for magnetic monopoles was conducted using the signature of an induced persistent current following the passage of igneous rock samples through a SQUID-based magnetometer. A total of 24.6 kg of rocks from various selected sites, among which 23.4 kg are mantle-derived rocks from the Arctic and Antarctic areas, was analyzed. No monopoles were found, and a 90% confidence level upper limit of 9.8 × 10(-5)/g is set on the monopole density in the search samples.
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- K Bendtz
- Fysikum, Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Fysikum, Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104, USA
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- Department of Physics, Lancaster University, LA1 4YW Lancaster, United Kingdom
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- Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Nordic Volcanological Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
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