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Limits on Production of Magnetic Monopoles Utilizing Samples from the DO and CDF Detectors at the Tevatron

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We present 90% confidence level limits on magnetic monopole production at the Fermilab Tevatron from three sets of samples obtained from the D0 and CDF detectors each exposed to a proton-antiproton luminosity of 175pb1\sim175 {pb}^{-1} (experiment E-882). Limits are obtained for the production cross-sections and masses for low-mass accelerator-produced pointlike Dirac monopoles trapped and bound in material surrounding the D0 and CDF collision regions. In the absence of a complete quantum field theory of magnetic charge, we estimate these limits on the basis of a Drell-Yan model. These results (for magnetic charge values of 1, 2, 3, and 6 times the minimum Dirac charge) extend and improve previously published bounds.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0306045,
  title  = {Limits on Production of Magnetic Monopoles Utilizing Samples from the DO and CDF Detectors at the Tevatron},
  author = {G. R. Kalbfleisch and W. Luo and K. A. Milton and E. H. Smith and M. G. Strauss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0306045},
  year   = {2008}
}

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18 pages, 17 figures, REVTeX4