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arxiv: 1710.08193 · v1 · pith:CZMMAN3Mnew · submitted 2017-10-23 · ✦ hep-ph

Muon bundles from the Universe

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keywords bundlescernhighmultiplicitymuonmuonicobserveduniverse
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Recently the CERN ALICE experiment, in its dedicated cosmic ray run, observed muon bundles of very high multiplicities, thereby confirming similar findings from the LEP era at CERN (in the CosmoLEP project). Significant evidence for anisotropy of arrival directions of the observed high multiplicity muonic bundles is found. Estimated directionality suggests their possible extragalactic provenance. We argue that muonic bundles of highest multiplicity are produced by strangelets, hypothetical stable lumps of strange quark matter infiltrating our Universe.

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