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Possible Binding of a Magnetic Monopole to a Particle with Electric Charge and a Magnetic Dipole Moment

Dennis Sivers*

  • Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

  • *National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow.

Phys. Rev. D 2, 2048 – Published 1 November, 1970

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.2.2048

Abstract

The author argues that Dirac monopoles, if they exist, could be strongly bound to those naturally occuring free nuclei with magnetic dipole moments, and discusses the effect this binding would have on the interpretation of experimental monopole searches.

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