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.

Authors

  • J Pace VanDevender

    VanDevender Enterprises

  • Robert G. Schmitt

    Sandia National Laboratories

  • Criss Swaim

    The Pineridge Group

  • Peter Wilson

    Ulster University

  • Deborah Dixon

    VanDevender Enterprises

  • Niall McGinley

    Ardaturr

  • Haydn Jones

    New Mexico Tech

  • Robert Baskin

    USGS

  • Tracianne B. Neilsen

    Brigham Young University

  • Gabriel Fronk

    Brigham Young University

  • Aaron P. VanDevender

    Founders Fund

  • Rinat Zakirov

    VanDevender Enterprises

  • Jacquelyn McRae

    VanDevender Enterprises

  • Mark Boslough

    University of New Mexico

  • Benjamin A. Ulmen

    Sandia National Laboratories

  • C. Jerald Buchenauer

    University of New Mexico

  • Chunpei Cai

    Michigan Technological University