Magnetic Monopole Search at high altitude with the SLIM experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2009-11-13 v2
Abstract
The SLIM experiment was a large array of nuclear track detectors located at the Chacaltaya high altitude Laboratory (5230 m a.s.l.). The detector was in particular sensitive to Intermediate Mass Magnetic Monopoles, with masses 10^5 < M <10^{12} GeV. From the analysis of the full detector exposed for more than 4 years a flux upper limit of 1.3 x 10^{-15} cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1} for downgoing fast Intermediate Mass Monopoles was established at the 90% C.L.
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@article{arxiv.0801.4913,
title = {Magnetic Monopole Search at high altitude with the SLIM experiment},
author = {S. Balestra and S. Cecchini and M. Cozzi and M. Errico and F. Fabbri and G. Giacomelli and R. Giacomelli and M. Giorgini and A. Kumar and S. Manzoor and J. McDonald and G. Mandrioli and S. Marcellini and A. Margiotta and E. Medinaceli and L. Patrizii and J. Pinfold and V. Popa and I. E. Qureshi and O. Saavedra and Z. Sahnoun and G. Sirri and M. Spurio and V. Togo and A. Velarde and A. Zanini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4913},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages. 11 EPS figures. Added Fig. 5 and ref. [15]. Added more details in Sect. 2 and 3