[PDF] Top 20 Searches for magnetic monopoles with IceCube

... Figure 1. Left: Light yield of monopole signatures at different speeds compared to the light yield of a bare muon (black solid). The luminescence yield is varied between 0.2 γ/MeV [11] (green dashed) and 1.0 γ/MeV [12] ... See full document

... as magnetic monopoles, dyons and (multiply) electrically-charged stable massive particles predicted in a number of theoreti- cal ...with magnetic monopole trapping volumes, while cavern backgrounds ... See full document

... observed. Searches for muon neutrino disappearance at the IceCube neutrino telescope presently provide the strongest limits in the space of mixing angles for eV- scale sterile ...the IceCube analyses ... See full document

... the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory are performed in a blind manner by only using 10 % of the acquired data as well as simulated data for signal and background ...new searches for magnetic ... See full document

... such monopoles should be enough to be registered (see ...of monopoles in a wide range of parameters, previously unreachable in other experiments (MACRO, SLIM, RICE, ... See full document

... for monopoles have been carried out in cosmic- ray experiments [8 – 14], in matter [15 – 18], and at colliders [1,19 – ...that monopoles (and other HIPs) can be probed at higher masses and to greater ... See full document

... source searches either from a predefined list of candidate sites for neutrino emission or as a full sky search for a hitherto unknown point in the sky which hides a neutrino ... See full document

... e. Magnetic monopoles are thus manifesting theirselves as Highly Ionising Particles ...from magnetic monopoles is one of the signature used by experimental searches around the ...free ... See full document

... Past searches of magnetic monopoles at electron-positron colliders focused on the identifi- cation of monopole tracks in Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) ...of monopoles with silicon detectors ... See full document

... for magnetic monopoles in neutrino detectors, is studied with ...of monopoles inducing luminescence is very likely detectable, thus a search for monopoles with low relativistic speeds would be ... See full document

... for magnetic monopoles, an experimental, model independent (as much as possible) search for them, is a pressing need, which can provide the theoretical quest with important guidance, especially if a ... See full document

... called magnetic monopoles, do not exist? That’s a mystery that has occupied the attention of some of the great minds in physics since the 19C ...the magnetic monopole, sadly none of these experiments ... See full document

... We will construct a model where we replace the non-Abelian gauge bosons in models of monopoles in grand unified theories with the gravitational multiplet of string theory. The Kalb-Ramond field [6], which appears ... See full document

... Standard collider detectors are not optimized for the detection of HIPs such as magnetic monopoles and massive long-lived or stable charged particles. Rather, the general-purpose detec- tors, such as ATLAS ... See full document

... . Defects across a phase boundary Given the sequence of symmetry-breaking phase transitions believed to have taken place in the early Universe, an important question for cosmology is the fate of topological defects ... See full document

... for magnetic monopoles in the mass and energy range considered ...Therefore, magnetic monopoles give rise to a narrow ionization energy deposit in the LAr calorimeter, the size of which ... See full document

... Depending on their type, D-branes could carry integral or torsion (discrete) charges. The lightest D-particle (LDP) is stable being the lightest state carrying this particular charge. Therefore, just as in the case of ... See full document

... associated magnetic bag is squashed into a circular disc – a magnetic ...the magnetic disc and show that it provides a good approximation to the axial N-monopole in the large N ...hyperbolic ... See full document

... quenched monopoles are not dynamically frozen, but apparently can still hop and recombine, reducing the density, and resulting in lower monopole current for longer wait ... See full document

... Hooft-Polyakov monopoles. But unlike the Dirac’s monopole, it carries the magnetic charge ...the magnetic charge of the EW monopole is twice that of the Dirac ... See full document