Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope: The IceCube Collaboration
We present the search for Cherenkov signatures from relativistic magnetic monopoles in data taken with the AMANDA-II detector, a neutrino telescope deployed in the Antarctic ice cap at the Geographic South Pole. The non-observation of a monopole signal in data collected during the year 2000 improves...
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ftunivbruxelles:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/217276 2023-05-15T13:44:43+02:00 Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope: The IceCube Collaboration Aguilar Sanchez, Juan Antonio Bechet, Sabrina Bertrand, Daniel Dierckxsens, Mark Hanson, Kael Labare, Mathieu Petrovic, Jéléna Toscano, Simona 2010-10 1 full-text file(s): application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/217276 https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/217276/3/doi_200903.pdf en eng uri/info:doi/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1411-6 uri/info:scp/77958152557 https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/217276/3/doi_200903.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/217276 1 full-text file(s): info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields, 69 (3 Physique des particules élémentaires Astrophysique info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:ulb-repo/semantics/articlePeerReview info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/article 2010 ftunivbruxelles 2022-06-12T21:09:43Z We present the search for Cherenkov signatures from relativistic magnetic monopoles in data taken with the AMANDA-II detector, a neutrino telescope deployed in the Antarctic ice cap at the Geographic South Pole. The non-observation of a monopole signal in data collected during the year 2000 improves present experimental limits on the flux of relativistic magnetic monopoles: Our flux limit varies between 3.8 × 10-17 cm-2 s-1 sr-1 (for monopoles moving at the vacuum speed of light) and 8.8 × 10-16 cm-2 s-1 sr-1 (for monopoles moving at a speed β=v/c=0.76, just above the Cherenkov threshold in ice). These limits apply to monopoles that are energetic enough to penetrate the Earth and enter the detector from below the horizon. The limit obtained for monopoles reaching the detector from above the horizon is less stringent by roughly an order of magnitude, due to the much larger background from down-going atmospheric muons. This looser limit is however valid for a larger class of magnetic monopoles, since the monopoles are not required to pass through the Earth. © 2010 The Author(s). 0 SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice cap South pole South pole DI-fusion : dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Antarctic The Antarctic South Pole |
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We present the search for Cherenkov signatures from relativistic magnetic monopoles in data taken with the AMANDA-II detector, a neutrino telescope deployed in the Antarctic ice cap at the Geographic South Pole. The non-observation of a monopole signal in data collected during the year 2000 improves present experimental limits on the flux of relativistic magnetic monopoles: Our flux limit varies between 3.8 × 10-17 cm-2 s-1 sr-1 (for monopoles moving at the vacuum speed of light) and 8.8 × 10-16 cm-2 s-1 sr-1 (for monopoles moving at a speed β=v/c=0.76, just above the Cherenkov threshold in ice). These limits apply to monopoles that are energetic enough to penetrate the Earth and enter the detector from below the horizon. The limit obtained for monopoles reaching the detector from above the horizon is less stringent by roughly an order of magnitude, due to the much larger background from down-going atmospheric muons. This looser limit is however valid for a larger class of magnetic monopoles, since the monopoles are not required to pass through the Earth. © 2010 The Author(s). 0 SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
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Aguilar Sanchez, Juan Antonio Bechet, Sabrina Bertrand, Daniel Dierckxsens, Mark Hanson, Kael Labare, Mathieu Petrovic, Jéléna Toscano, Simona |
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Aguilar Sanchez, Juan Antonio Bechet, Sabrina Bertrand, Daniel Dierckxsens, Mark Hanson, Kael Labare, Mathieu Petrovic, Jéléna Toscano, Simona |
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Aguilar Sanchez, Juan Antonio |
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Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope: The IceCube Collaboration |
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Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope: The IceCube Collaboration |
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Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope: The IceCube Collaboration |
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Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope: The IceCube Collaboration |
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Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope: The IceCube Collaboration |
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search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the amanda-ii neutrino telescope: the icecube collaboration |
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