Astroparticle physics with nuclear track detectors


Autoria(s): Medinaceli Villegas, Eduardo
Contribuinte(s)

Giacomelli, Giorgio

Cecchini, Stefano

Patrizii, Laura

Chiarusi, Tommaso

Data(s)

05/06/2008

Resumo

This thesis is mainly about the search for exotic heavy particles -Intermediate Mass Magnetic Monopoles, Nuclearites and Q-balls with the SLIM experiment at the Chacaltaya High Altitude Laboratory (5230 m, Bolivia), establishing upper limits (90% CL) in the absence of candidates, which are among the best if not the only one for all three kind of particles. A preliminary study of the background induced by cosmic neutron in CR39 at the SLIM site, using Monte Carlo simulations. The measurement of the elemental abundance of the primary cosmic ray with the CAKE experiment on board of a stratospherical balloon; the charge distribution obtained spans in the range 5≤Z≤31. Both experiments were based on the use of plastic Nuclear Track Detectors, which records the passage of ionizing particles; by using some chemical reagents such passage can be make visible at optical microscopes.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/850/1/Tesi_Medinaceli_Eduardo.pdf

urn:nbn:it:unibo-819

Medinaceli Villegas, Eduardo (2008) Astroparticle physics with nuclear track detectors, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Fisica <http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/view/dottorati/DOT244/>, 20 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/850.

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Relação

http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/850/

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Palavras-Chave #FIS/01 Fisica sperimentale
Tipo

Tesi di dottorato

NonPeerReviewed