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Ultrarelativistic magnetic monopole search with the ANITA-II balloon-borne radio interferometer

M. Detrixhe4, D. Besson4, P. W. Gorham1, P. Allison1, B. Baughmann3, J. J. Beatty3, K. Belov9, S. Bevan8, W. R. Binns5 et al. (ANITA Collaboration)

W. R. Binns5, C. Chen6, P. Chen6, J. M. Clem7, A. Connolly8, D. De Marco7, P. F. Dowkontt5, M. A. DuVernois1, C. Frankenfeld4, E. W. Grashorn3, D. P. Hogan4,*, N. Griffith3, B. Hill1, S. Hoover9, M. H. Israel5, A. Javaid7, K. M. Liewer10, S. Matsuno1, B. C. Mercurio3, C. Miki1, M. Mottram8, J. Nam11, R. J. Nichol8, K. Palladino3, A. Romero-Wolf1, L. Ruckman1, D. Saltzberg9, D. Seckel7, G. S. Varner1, A. G. Vieregg9, and Y. Wang2,1 (ANITA Collaboration)

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii 96822, USA
  • 2Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
  • 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
  • 5Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
  • 6Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 7Department of Physics, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
  • 8Department of Physics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
  • 9Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
  • 10Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California 91109, USA
  • 11Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

  • *Currently at Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Phys. Rev. D 83, 023513 – Published 19 January, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023513

Abstract

We have conducted a search for extended energy deposition trails left by ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles interacting in Antarctic ice. The nonobservation of any satisfactory candidates in the 31 days of accumulated ANITA-II (Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna) flight data results in an upper limit on the diffuse flux of relativistic monopoles. We obtain a 90% C.L. limit of order 10−19  (cm2 s  sr)−1 for values of Lorentz factor, γ, 1010≤γ at the anticipated energy Etot=1016  GeV. This bound is stronger than all previously published experimental limits for this kinematic range.

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Phys. Rev. D 83, 023513– Published 19 January, 2011
  • Received 19 August 2010
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