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Identification of Energetic Heavy Nuclei With Solid Dielectric Track Detectors: Applications to Astrophysical and Planetary Studies

P. Buford Price, Robert L Fleischer

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Although the dark matter is usually assumed to be made up of some form of elementary particle, primordial black holes (PBHs) could also provide some of it. However, various constraints restrict the possible mass windows to 1016–1017 g, 1020–1024 g, and 10–...Read More

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Although the dark matter is usually assumed to be made up of some form of elementary particle, primordial black holes (PBHs) could also provide some of it. However, various constraints restrict the possible mass windows to 1016–1017 g, 1020–1024 g, and 10–...Read More

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Although the dark matter is usually assumed to be made up of some form of elementary particle, primordial black holes (PBHs) could also provide some of it. However, various constraints restrict the possible mass windows to 1016–1017 g, 1020–1024 g, and 10–...Read More

Key concepts: Physics, Dark matter, Track (disk drive), Particle identification, Identification (biology), Detector, Nuclear physics, Astrophysics

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