New limit on magnetic monopole flux

J. Bartelt; H. Courant; K. Heller; T. Joyce; M. Marshak; E. Peterson; K. Ruddick; M. Shupe; D. S. Ayres; J. W. Dawson; T. H. Fields; E. N. May; L. E. Price

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.655

New limit on magnetic monopole flux

J. Bartelt, H. Courant, K. Heller, T. Joyce, M. Marshak, E. Peterson, K. Ruddick, M. Shupe, D. S. Ayres, J. W. Dawson, T. H. Fields, E. N. May, L. E. Price

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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 <4.1×10-13 cm-2 sr-1 s-1 for velocities between 10-3c and 10-2c.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	655-658
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	50
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.655
State	Published - 1983
Externally published	Yes

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