Detection of magnetic monopoles with the ANTARES detector

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Nov 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006pan....69.1908v&link_type=abstract

Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Volume 69, Issue 11, pp.1908-1913

Physics

95.55.Vj, 95.85.Ry, 14.80.Hv

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The ANTARES Collaboration is constructing a neutrino telescope on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The main goal of ANTARES is to detect high-energy cosmic neutrinos. The detection principle relies on the observation of Čerenkov light emitted by neutrino-induced muons. It is shown that this type of detector is also able to detect exotic particles such as magnetic monopoles. Above the Čerenkov limit, monopoles can be detected because of the emission of large amounts of direct Čerenkov light. Monopoles are also detectable below the Čerenkov limit through the production of δ rays, which in turn emit Čerenkov light. The development of a software trigger for ANTARES designed for monopole detection is presented. A simulation of the δ-ray-induced and direct Čerenkov light emission by monopoles has been made and used to study the trigger efficiency for the detection of monopoles. Techniques to suppress background at the trigger level are presented, and plans for the future are discussed.

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