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Aug 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985icrc....8..253m&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center 19th Intern. Cosmic Ray Conf., Vol. 8 p 253-256 (SEE N85-36066 24-93)
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Energy Dissipation, Helium, Magnetic Monopoles, Proportional Counters, Design Analysis, Detection, Ionization, Prototypes
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The energy loss mechanism for slowly moving magnetic monopoles in helium provides a means of extending the search for such particles by ionization techniques to velocities approximately 3 X 1 million cm/sec (beta approximately equals 0.0001). Other gases (e.g., CH2 or CO2) mixed with helium will be ionized with high efficiency by collisions with excited helium atoms, thus allowing the use of large proportional chamber systems for the detection of the monopoles. The first reported results utilizing this mechanism was the experiment of Kajino, et al., using a detector with an area-solid angle product alpha time delta alpha of 24.7 square meters sr. They set a limit on the flux of monopoles of 7.2 x 10 to the 13th power cm(-2) sr(-1) sec(-1) at a 90% confidence level for beta 3x 0.0001. Here, the results of a He:CH2 proportional tube array designed to extend the velocity limit down to beta approximately 0.0001 are reported. The detector which has been operating at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since last summer, is a prototype for a larger array currently under construction at UCSD. The data presented here is from 200 days of live time with the prototype detector.
Knapp L. M.
Masek G. E.
Miller Ezra
Stronski J. P.
Vernon W.
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