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A Medium Frequency RF Sensor for Detection of Magnetized Quark Nuggets

Borchardt, John J.

It is hypothesized that dark matter is composed of particles called quark nuggets, and further that these particles have a permanent magnetic dipole moment. If this hypothesis is true, calculations predict that a magnetized quark nugget (MQN) will oscillate when encountering the Earth's magnetosphere, and emit RF radiation between 30kHz and 30MHz. To support testing this hypothesis, a loop antenna sensor was designed and developed, which is described in this report. This sensor operates between 300kHz and 3MHz and achieves about -11dBfT/vHz sensitivity at 1.5MHz.