HE Stratosphere Event of 1975 Revisited: the Difference between the Patterns of Astroparticle Interaction and LHC Nucleus-Nucleus Collision

TL;DR

This paper re-analyzes a 1975 high-energy astroparticle event, comparing it with LHC data, and suggests the possible detection of baryonic dark matter decay rather than standard nucleus-nucleus collision signatures.

Contribution

It introduces a novel interpretation of the 1975 event as baryonic dark matter decay, contrasting with traditional nucleus collision models, based on re-analysis of particle tracks and spectral features.

Findings

Detection of a high transverse mass particle (16 GeV) inconsistent with nucleus collision.

Observation of a small nucleon population in projectile fragmentation region.

Features suggesting baryonic dark matter decay rather than standard nucleus-nucleus collision.

Abstract

The event of astroparticle collision at high energy was detected in 1975 during the balloon flight in the stratosphere. The data of hundred particle tracks in x-ray films have been re-analyzed in the style of LHC experiments: rapidity distributions of charged particles and transverse mass spectra of multi-particle production have been built. The comparison of multiple histograms with the expectations of the Quark-Gluon String Model (QGSM) gives us, at first sight, the conclusion that it might be the carbon-nucleus collision with the matter of atmosphere at the c.m.s. equivalent energy $\sqrt{s} \ge $ 5 TeV. Nevertheless, the data indicate the features that cannot be associated with nucleus-nucleus collision: one particle with transverse mass 16 GeV was detected and a small nucleon population has been seen in the region of projectile fragmentation that does not correspond to the carbon nucleus collision. Both facts make us convinced that there might be a baryonic DM decay (Piskounova O., 2018). Baryonic DM particles are to be formed at the huge gravitation pressure in giant massive objects like Black Holes. Relativistic jets are spreading the baryonic DM in space. The important difference between this form of matter and the ordinary nucleus lies in the results of collision: baryonic DM is the object, where protons and antiprotons are strongly connected, so the energy is divided between nucleon components due to the structure function of Regge type, like for quarks in the proton. The lightest debris of baryonic DM particle interacts with the greatest maximal rapidity and gives the small number of nucleons in the forwarding part of spectra. Baryonic DM can also split into the pair of similar DM with lower mass giving an unusual couple of hadrons with mass like 14 GeV and heavier.