Non-collider searches for stable massive particles

S Burdin, M Fairbairn, P Mermod, D Milstead, J Pinfold… - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
The theoretical motivation for exotic stable massive particles (SMPs) and the results of SMP
searches at non-collider facilities are reviewed. SMPs are defined such that they would be …

Status of searches for magnetic monopoles

L Patrizii, M Spurio - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Searches for magnetic monopoles (s) are a fascinating interdisciplinary area with
implications for fundamental theories, particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. The …

Search for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger mechanism

B Acharya, J Alexandre, P Benes, B Bergmann… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Electrically charged particles can be created by the decay of strong enough electric fields, a
phenomenon known as the Schwinger mechanism. By electromagnetic duality, a sufficiently …

Magnetic monopole mass bounds from heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars

O Gould, A Rajantie - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
Magnetic monopoles, if they exist, would be produced amply in strong magnetic fields and
high temperatures via the thermal Schwinger process. Such circumstances arise in heavy …

Observation of electronic excitation by extremely slow protons with applications to the detection of supermassive charged particles

DJ Ficenec, SP Ahlen, AA Marin, JA Musser, G Tarlé - Physical Review D, 1987 - APS
The sensitivity of scintillators to grand unification monopoles and other supermassive
charged particles is inferred from measurements of scintillation by recoil protons with …

Monopole catalysis of proton decay

VA Rubakov - Reports on Progress in Physics, 1988 - iopscience.iop.org
The theoretical studies of the monopole catalysis of proton decay in grand unified theories
are reviewed. Monopole catalysis, ie the ability of magnetic monopoles to induce nucleon …

Magnetic monopoles

G Giacomelli - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento (1978-1999), 1984 - Springer
2" 3.2. The magnetic-coupling constant. 2" 3.3. The mass of tile l) irac monopole. 2" 3.4. Tim
electromagnetic vector potential and the Dirac string. 2" 3.5. Parity conservation and charge …

Magnetic monopole searches

G GIACOMELLI, L Patrizii - Non-Accelerator Astroparticle Physics, 2005 - World Scientific
In these lecture notes we discuss the status of the searches for classical Dirac Magnetic
Monopoles (MMs) at accelerators, for GUT superheavy MMs in the penetrating cosmic …

Energy losses of magnetic monopoles and dyons in scintillators, streamer tubes and nuclear track detectors

J Derkaoui, G Giacomelli, T Lari, G Mandrioli… - Astroparticle …, 1999 - Elsevier
A systematic analysis of the energy losses of magnetic monopoles of different magnetic
charges and of dyons in three types of detectors are investigated for a large range of β= υ c …

[PDF][PDF] A search for massive magnetic monopoles at the Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST)

YF Novoseltsev, MM Boliev, AV Butkevich… - Nuclear Physics B …, 2006 - researchgate.net
One of the solvable task of the Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST) was the
search for Magnetic Monopoles (MMs) at the mass scale of grand unified theories of the …