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nounnuclearite (plural nuclearites)
plural nuclearites
- astronomyAn aggregate of quarks when in collision with the Earth
After a short discussion on nuclearites, the result of a nuclearite search with the gravitational wave bar detectors Nautilus and Explorer is reported.
2015, M.Bassan, E.Coccia, S.D'Antonio, V.Fafone, G. Giordano, A. Marini, Y.Minenkov, I. Modena, G. V. Pallottino, G.Pizzella, A. Rocchi, F. Ronga, M. Visco, “Dark Matter searches using gravitational wave bar detectors: quark nuggets and newtorites”, in arXiv
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