https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10208-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Telescope array bursts, radio pulses and axion quark nuggets
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Received:
6
August
2021
Accepted:
14
March
2022
Published online:
22
March
2022
Telescope array (TA) experiment has recorded Abbasi et al. (Phys Lett A 381(32):2565–2572, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2017.06.022, 2017), Okuda (J Phys Conf Ser 1181:012067, https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1181/1/012067, 2019) several short time bursts of air shower like events. These bursts are very distinct from conventional single showers, and are found to be strongly correlated with lightnings. In our previous work Zhitnitsky (J Phys G 48(6):065201, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/abd457, arXiv:2008.04325 [hep-ph], 2021) we proposed that these bursts represent the direct manifestation of the dark matter (DM) annihilation events within the so-called axion quark nugget (AQN) model. In the present work we suggest to test this proposal to search for the radio signals in frequency band 
(0.5–200) MHz which must be synchronized with the TA bursts. We argued that the conventional lightning-induced radio emission can be easily discriminated from the AQN-induced radio pulses discussed in this work.
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