Search for supermassive magnetic monopoles using mica crystals

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Aug 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985icrc....8..242p&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center 19th Intern. Cosmic Ray Conf., Vol. 8 p 242-245 (SEE N85-36066 24-93)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Crystals, Magnetic Monopoles, Mica, Particle Tracks, Detection, Energy Dissipation, Heavy Ions, Ionization

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The survival of the Galactic magnetic field almost certainly sets an astrophysical upper bound of approx. 10 to the minus 15th power cm(-2) sr(-1) s(-1) on the flux of monopoles. To improve significantly upon this Parker limit with direct, real time searches would require a detector area of approx. 10,000 square meters and a collection time of years. Several such searches are being contemplated. A novel alternative scheme using large mica crystals capable of recording and storing tracks of slow monopoles over a time scale of approx. 10 to the 9th power years was proposed.

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