Energy loss and damage production by heavy ions and strange quark matter in silicon

Abstract

In this contribution, the peculiarities of the behaviour of strange quark matter in respect to ordinary ions in silicon are investigated, and a tentative to identify possible observable effects of degradation is made.

Comments: - presented at the 10th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications, Villa Olmo, Como 8-12 October 2007 - work in the frame of CERN RD50 Collaboration