MEASURING THE DAEMON-FLUX SEASONAL MAXIMAAT THE BAKSAN NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY

摘要

Detection of negative daemons (Dark Electric Matter Objects - presumably the multiplyelectrically charged Planckian objects) in low--background conditions in September 2005and March 2006 has provided supportive evidence for the expected to occur at that timesmaxima in the flux of daemons with V 10-15 km/s. These objects hit the Earth from thenear-Earth, almost circular heliocentric orbits (NEACHOs). The ability of some FEU-167-1 PM tubes with a thicker inner Al coating to detect directly (without a scintillator)daemon passage through them has also been employed, an effect increasing -100-fold thedetector efficiency. As a result, the daemon flux recorded at the maxima was increasedfrom -10-9 to 10-7cm2s-1. At the maxima, two phases in the observed flux can be discri-minated. The first of them is associated with objects moving in outer NEACHOs, whichcatch up with the Earth and cross it. The intensity and direction of the flux during thisphase which lasts about two weeks depend on the time of day and latitude of observations(therefore, synchronous measurements in the northern and southern Earth's hemispheresare desirable). In the second phase, where the flux consists primarily of few objectstransferred into geocentric, Earth-surface-crossing orbits during the first phase, the day-time and latitude dependence becomes less pronounced. All the experimental results thusobtained either support the conclusions following from the daemon paradigm or find asimple interpretation within it.