{
  "id": "1309.1852",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2013-09-07T11:27:29.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-09-07T11:27:29.000Z",
  "title": "Anisotropy in Cosmic rays from internal transitions in neutron stars",
  "authors": [
    "M. Angeles Perez-Garcia",
    "K. Kotera",
    "J. Silk"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the RICAP-13, Roma International Conference on AstroParticle Physics, 22-24 May 2013, Rome, Italy",
  "journal": "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 742 (2014) 237-240",
  "doi": "10.1016/j.nima.2013.11.007",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "We discuss the possibility that some recently measured anisotropic cosmic ray components in the TeV-PeV energy range may be an indication of the ejection of a peculiar type of matter. We present a model where a neutron star internal transition with nuclear deconfinement of the quark content takes place. This catastrophic event may cause a mass ejection process seeding the insterstelar medium with droplets of quark matter, so called nuclearites. Neutralization of these droplets in molecular clouds may drive the anisotropy since quasi-rectilinear trajectories are allowed. Complementary information from current experimental settings on earth or magnetic spectrometers on the ISS may shed light on this exotic form of matter.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2013-09-07T11:27:29.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "anisotropy",
      "neutron star internal transition",
      "measured anisotropic cosmic ray components",
      "tev-pev energy range",
      "mass ejection process"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "Apr",
      "volume": 742,
      "pages": 237
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1253289,
      "adsabs": "2014NIMPA.742..237A"
    }
  }
}