Speculations on indirect searches for magnetic monopoles

Autor: J. L. Newmeyer, J. S. Trefil
Rok vydání: 1972
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Zdroj: Il Nuovo Cimento A. 8:703-721
ISSN: 1826-9869
0369-3546
DOI: 10.1007/bf02722762
Popis: The superstrong interaction between magnetic monopoles suppresses the production rate of free monopoles and antimonopoles below what one would expect on the basis of standard production models, since, even when a monopole and an antimonopole are created, it is very likely they will be drawn together and annihilate rather than escape each other. This makes it very difficult to search for them directly. In this paper we speculate on the feasibility of various techniques which could be used to infer the existence of monopoles indirectly. In particular, it may sometimes be possible to recognize a monopole-antimonopole annihilation by its products, which for our purposes we take to be showers of photons. Our conclusions as to the appropriateness of various methods as a function of monopole mass and (magnetic) charge are summarized in Fig. 2; the indirect methods are expected to be suited to look for monopoles of high magnetic charge.
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