Published July 18, 2001
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Journal article
Signature studies of cosmic magnetic monopoles
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 (United States)
- 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235 (United States)
Description
This talk explores the possibility that the Universe may be populated with relic magnetic monopoles. Observations of galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields, lead to the conclusion that monopoles of mass (less-or-similar sign)1014 GeV are accelerated in these fields to relativistic velocities. The relativistic monopole signatures and features we derive are (i) the protracted shower development, (ii) the Cherenkov signals, (iii) the tomography of the Earth with monopoles, and (iv) a model for monopole airshowers above the GZK cutoff
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1398159;
- arXiv
- arXiv:astro-ph/0102002v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 579
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 43-52
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35076104
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHERENKOV RADIATION; COSMIC RAY DETECTION; COSMIC SHOWERS; COSMOLOGY; EEV RANGE; INTERSTELLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MONOPOLES; MASS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SIGNALS; TOMOGRAPHY; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMIC RADIATION; DETECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MONOPOLES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; SHOWERS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.