Final results of magnetic monopole searches with the MACRO experiment Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present the final results obtained by the MACRO experiment in the search for GUT magnetic monopoles in the penetrating cosmic radiation, for the range 4 10-5 < < 1. Several searches with all the MACRO sub-detectors (i.e. scintillation counters, limited streamer tubes and nuclear track detectors) were performed, both in stand alone and combined ways. No candidates were detected and a 90% Confidence Level (C.L.) upper limit to the local magnetic monopole flux was set at the level of 1.4 10-16 cm-2 s-1 sr-1. This result is the first experimental limit obtained in direct searches which is well below the Parker bound in the whole range in which GUT magnetic monopoles are expected.

published proceedings

  • EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Ambrosio, M., Antolini, R., Auriemma, G., Bakari, D., Baldini, A., Barbarino, G. C., ... Webb, R.

citation count

  • 147

complete list of authors

  • Ambrosio, M||Antolini, R||Auriemma, G||Bakari, D||Baldini, A||Barbarino, GC||Barish, BC||Battistoni, G||Becherini, Y||Bellotti, R||Bemporad, C||Bernardini, P||Bilokon, H||Bloise, C||Bower, C||Brigida, M||Bussino, S||Cafagna, F||Calicchio, M||Campana, D||Carboni, M||Caruso, R||Cecchini, S||Cei, F||Chiarella, V||Chiarusi, T||Choudhary, BC||Coutu, S||Cozzi, M||De Cataldo, G||Dekhissi, H||De Marzo, C||De Mitri, I||Derkaoui, J||De Vincenzi, M||Di Credico, A||Erriquez, O||Favuzzi, C||Forti, C||Fusco, P||Giacomelli, G||Giannini, G||Giglietto, N||Giorgini, M||Grassi, M||Grillo, A||Guarino, F||Gustavino, C||Habig, A||Hanson, K||Heinz, R||Iarocci, E||Katsavounidis, E||Katsavounidis, I||Kearns, E||Kim, H||Kyriazopoulou, S||Kumar, A||Lamanna, E||Lane, C||Levin, DS||Lipari, P||Longley, NP||Longo, MJ||Loparco, F||Maaroufi, F||Mancarella, G||Mandrioli, G||Manzoor, S||Margiotta, A||Marini, A||Martello, D||Marzari-Chiesa, A||Matteuzzi, D||Mazziotta, MN||Michael, DG||Monacelli, P||Montaruli, T||Monteno, M||Mufson, S||Musser, J||Nicolo, D||Nolty, R||Orth, C||Osteria, G||Palamara, O||Patera, V||Patrizii, L||Pazzi, R||Peck, CW||Perrone, L||Petrera, S||Pistilli, P||Popa, V||Raino, A||Reynoldson, J||Ronga, F||Rrhioua, A||Satriano, C||Scapparone, E||Scholberg, K||Sciubba, A||Serra, P||Sioli, M||Sirri, G||Sitta, M||Spinelli, P||Spinetti, M||Spurio, M||Steinberg, R||Stone, JL||Sulak, LR||Surdo, A||Tarle, G||Togo, V||Vakili, M||Walter, CW||Webb, R

publication date

  • January 2002