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Search for Magnetic-Monopole Production by 300-GeV Protons

R. A. Carrigan, Jr., F. A. Nezrick, and B. P. Strauss*

  • National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510

  • *Operated by Universities Research Association Inc. under contract with the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

Phys. Rev. D 8, 3717 – Published 1 December, 1973

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.8.3717

Abstract

In a search for magnetic monopoles, a steel beam dump has been exposed to 3.4 × 1016 protons of 300 GeV energy at the National Accelerator Laboratory. The search apparatus employed an 80-kG solenoid 50 cm long capable of extracting a monopole and accelerating it through a series of thin scintillation counters. A monopole would have been identified by its energy loss and range in the scintillators. No monopoles with magnetic charges in the interval from 16 to 24 times the Dirac magnetic charge were found. The upper limit at a 95% confidence level for the cross section per nucleon on iron is 6 × 1042 cm2.

Comments & Replies

Extension of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory magnetic-monopole search to 400 GeV

R. A. Carrigan, Jr., F. A. Nezrick, and B. P. Strauss
Phys. Rev. D 10, 3867 (1974)

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