Detection of Magnetized Quark Nuggets or Axion Quark Nuggets with Non-meteorite Craters in Ireland, Acoustic Monitoring of Great Salt Lake, and Radio-frequency Monitoring of Planetary Flybys.
ORAL
Abstract
Magnetized quark nuggets (MQNs) are theoretical objects composed of approximately equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks and are candidate for dark matter consistent with the Standard Model. Tatsumi calculates they form a ferromagnetic fluid bound by strong nuclear forces and have a surface magnetic field B$_{o}$ between 10$^{11}$ and 10$^{12}$ T. We report 1) null results of MQNs with mass $>$ 0.0001 kg in a 3 x 10$^{7}$ m$^2$ area of the Great Salt Lake in 0.25 y, excluding B$_{o} <$ 2 x 10$^{11}$ T, 2) positive results consistent with the passage of a MQN or Axion Quark Nugget (AQN) in a three-layer witness plate of an Irish peat bog, excluding B$_{o} <$ 4 x 10$^{11}$ T, and 3) too few events like Tunguska (1908) or Fukushima Earthquake (2011), excluding B$_{o} >$ 2 x 10$^{12}$ T. Radio frequency signals observed with the FORTE satellite in 1997 are compared to predicted emissions from MQNs after fly-by through earth’s atmosphere. MQNs might also be detected by magnetic fields of asteroids, collecting them for 4.6 Gy.
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Authors
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J Pace VanDevender
VanDevender Enterprises
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Robert G. Schmitt
Sandia National Laboratories
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Criss Swaim
The Pineridge Group
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Peter Wilson
Ulster University
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Deborah Dixon
VanDevender Enterprises
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Niall McGinley
Ardaturr
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Haydn Jones
New Mexico Tech
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Robert Baskin
USGS
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Tracianne B. Neilsen
Brigham Young University
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Gabriel Fronk
Brigham Young University
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Aaron P. VanDevender
Founders Fund
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Rinat Zakirov
VanDevender Enterprises
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Jacquelyn McRae
VanDevender Enterprises
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Mark Boslough
University of New Mexico
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Benjamin A. Ulmen
Sandia National Laboratories
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C. Jerald Buchenauer
University of New Mexico
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Chunpei Cai
Michigan Technological University