SEARCH FOR SLOWLY MOVING MAGNETIC MONOPOLES WITH THE MACRO DETECTOR

Authors

AHLEN S AMBROSIO M ANTOLINI R AURIEMMA G BAKER R BALDINI A BAM BB BARBARINO GC BARISH BC BATTISTONI G BELLOTTI R BEMPORAD C BERNARDINI P BILOKON H BISI V BLOISE C BOWER C BUSSINO S CAFAGNA F CALICCHIO M CAMPANA D CAMPANA P CARBONI M CECCHINI S CEI F CHIARELLA V CORMACK R CORONA A COUTU S DECATALDO G DEKHISSI H DEMARZO C DEVINCENZI M DICREDICO A DIEHL E ERRIQUEZ O FAVUZZI C FICENEC D FORTI C FUSCO P GIACOMELLI G GIANNINI G GIGLIETTO N GIUBELLINO P GRASSI M GREEN P GRILLO A GUARINO F GUARNACCIA P GUSTAVINO C HABIG A HEINZ R HONG JT IAROCCI E KATSAVOUNIDIS E KEARNS E KLEIN S KYRIAZOPOULOU S LAMANNA E LANE C LEE C LEVIN D LIPARI P LIU G LIU R LONGO MJ LU Y LUDLAM G MANCARELLA G MANDRIOLI G MARGIOTTANERI A MARIN A MARINI A MARTELLO D CHIESA AM MASERA M MAZZIOTTA MN MICHAEL DG MIKHEYEV S MILLER L MITTELBRUNN M MONACELLI P MONTENO M MUFSON S MUSSER J NICOLO D NOLTY R NUTTER S OKADA C OSTERIA G PALAMARA O PARLATI S PATERA V PATRIZII L PAVESI B PAZZI R PECK CW PETRAKIS J PETRERA S PIGNATANO ND PISTILLI P REYNOLDSON J RONGA F SANZANI G SANZGIRI A SATRIANO C SATTA L SCAPPARONE E SCHOLBERG K SCIUBBA A LUGARESI PS SEVERI M SITTA M SPINELLI P SPINETTI M SPURIO M STEELE J STEINBERG R STONE JL SULAK LR SURDO A TARLE G VALENTE V WALTER CW WEBB R WORSTELL W

Citation

S. Ahlen et al., SEARCH FOR SLOWLY MOVING MAGNETIC MONOPOLES WITH THE MACRO DETECTOR, Physical review letters, 72(5), 1994, pp. 608-610

Citations number

Categorie Soggetti

Physics

Journal title

Physical review letters → ACNP

ISSN journal

00319007

Volume

Issue

Year of publication

1994

Pages

608 - 610

Database

ISI

SICI code

0031-9007(1994)72:5<608:SFSMMM>2.0.ZU;2-C

Abstract

A search for slowly moving magnetic monopoles in the cosmic radiation was conducted from October 1989 to November 1991 using the large liqui d scintillator detector subsystem of the first supermodule of the MACR O detector at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. The absence of ca ndidates established an upper limit on the monopole flux of 5.6 x 10(- 15) cm-2 sr-1 s-1 at 90% confidence level in the velocity range of 10( -4) less than or similar to beta < 4 x 10(-3). This result places a ne w constraint on the abundance of monopoles trapped in our solar system .