Published February 28, 1983
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Journal article
New limit on magnetic monopole flux
Creators
- 1. School of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Description
The underground Soudan-1 nucleon decay experiment can measure the velocities of slowly moving particles if they can be detected by ionization at a level 0.5 times that of a relativistic muon. Magnetic monopoles predicted by grand unified theories should satisfy this condition if their velocities are greater than 10-3c. During a live time of 0.41 yr, no candidate has been observed, implying a 90%- confidence-level limit on the flux of such objects of <4.1 x 10-13 cm-2 sr-1 s-1 for velocities between 10-3c and 10-2c
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Volume
- 50
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 655-658
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 14781590
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- IONIZATION; MAGNETIC MONOPOLES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUONS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MONOPOLES; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATION DETECTORS