Status of the evidence for a magnetic monopole

Details Status of the evidence for a magnetic monopole Status of the evidence for a magnetic monopole

Jun 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975stin...7622140p&link_type=abstract

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Physics

Nuclear Physics

Experimentation, Magnetic Poles, Monopoles, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Cerenkov Counters, Detectors, Graphs (Charts), Lexan (Trademark), Nuclei (Nuclear Physics), Particle Tracks

Scientific paper

The experimental evidence supporting the detection of a moving magnetic monopole, using a balloon-borne array of track detectors, was presented. Although the results cannot be proved to have been produced by a monopole, they do not seem to have been produced by any nucleus. The very high, roughly constant ionization rate inferred from track etch rate measurements in a stack of Lexan detectors implies passage of a minimum-ionizing particle more highly charged than any known nucleus, yet the Cerenkov film detectors indicated a velocity less than about 0.68 times the speed of light and the size of the track in the nuclear emulsion indicated a velocity approximately equal to 0.5 times the speed of light. At this velocity the ionization rate of a highly electrically charged particle would have changed dramatically with pathlength unless its mass to charge ratio were far greater than that of a nucleus.

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