Paper: astro-ph/0505584
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 20:25:23 GMT (13kb)

Title: Seismic Search for Strange Quark Nuggets

Authors: Eugene T. Herrin, Doris C. Rosenbaum and Vigdor L. Teplitz
Comments: 17 pages, 6 tables, no figures
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Bounds on masses and abundances of Strange Quark Nuggets (SQNs) are inferred
from a seismic search on Earth. Potential SQN bounds from a possible seismic
search on the Moon are reviewed and compared with Earth capabilities. Bounds
are derived from the data taken by seismometers implanted on the Moon by the
Apollo astronauts. Most importantly, we show that the Apollo data implies that
the abundance of SQNs in the region of 10 kg to one ton must be at least an
order of magnitude less than would saturate the dark matter in the solar
neighborhood. The Earth and Apollo data taken together imply that it is
unlikely that if dark matter is made of SQNs, those SQNs were formed when big
bang temperatures were in the range $10^4-10^6$ GeV.

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