Abstract
The evidence for quarks as the basic blocks of matter come only from very expensive experiments, performed in very large particle accelerators. An alternative method of detection is to look for changes in spectroscopic properties that could be influenced by fractionally charged nuclei formed with the ‘wrong’ number of quarks. Although this proposal has already been made by many authors, they were not able to provide feasible and easily interpretable experiments to detect quarks in matter. In this paper, we present the results of configuration interaction (CI) calculations for the transition energies and optical oscillator strengths associated with inner shell electronic spectra of molecular nitrogen made of fractionally charged nuclei. It is shown that these bands can be used as fingerprints characterizing the presence of quarks in matter.
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