Exploring detection of nuclearites in a large liquid scintillator neutrino detector

Understand

We take the JUNO experiment as an example to explore nuclearites in the future large liquid scintillator detector.

• Comparing to the previous calculations, the visible energy of nuclearites across the liquid scintillator will be reestimated for the liquid scintillator based detector.
• Then the JUNO sensitivities to the nuclearite flux are presented.
• It is found that the JUNO projected sensitivities can be better than $7.7 \times 10^{-17} {\rm cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1}}$ for the nuclearite mass $10^{15} \; {\rm GeV} \leq M \leq 10^{24}$ GeV and initial velocity $10^{-4} \leq \beta_0 \leq 10^{-1}$ with a 20 year running.