Searches for relativistic magnetic monopoles in IceCube

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dc.contributor.authorIceCube Collaboration
dc.contributor.authorPalczewski, T.
dc.contributor.authorPepper, J.A.
dc.contributor.authorToale, P.A.
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, D.R.
dc.contributor.otherRWTH Aachen University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Adelaide
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alaska System
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alaska Anchorage
dc.contributor.otherClark Atlanta University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity System of Georgia
dc.contributor.otherGeorgia Institute of Technology
dc.contributor.otherSouthern University System
dc.contributor.otherSouthern University & A&M College
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of California System
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of California Berkeley
dc.contributor.otherUnited States Department of Energy (DOE)
dc.contributor.otherLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
dc.contributor.otherHumboldt University of Berlin
dc.contributor.otherRuhr University Bochum
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Wurzburg
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Bonn
dc.contributor.otherUniversite Libre de Bruxelles
dc.contributor.otherVrije Universiteit Brussel
dc.contributor.otherChiba University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Canterbury
dc.contributor.otherUniversity System of Maryland
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Maryland College Park
dc.contributor.otherUniversity System of Ohio
dc.contributor.otherOhio State University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Copenhagen
dc.contributor.otherNiels Bohr Institute
dc.contributor.otherDortmund University of Technology
dc.contributor.otherMichigan State University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alberta
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Erlangen Nuremberg
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Geneva
dc.contributor.otherGhent University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of California Irvine
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Kansas
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Wisconsin System
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Wisconsin Madison
dc.contributor.otherJohannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Mons
dc.contributor.otherTechnical University of Munich
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Delaware
dc.contributor.otherYale University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Oxford
dc.contributor.otherDrexel University
dc.contributor.otherSouth Dakota School Mines & Technology
dc.contributor.otherOskar Klein Centre
dc.contributor.otherStockholm University
dc.contributor.otherState University of New York (SUNY) System
dc.contributor.otherState University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook
dc.contributor.otherSungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Toronto
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.contributor.otherPennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)
dc.contributor.otherPennsylvania State University
dc.contributor.otherPennsylvania State University - University Park
dc.contributor.otherUppsala University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Wuppertal
dc.contributor.otherHelmholtz Association
dc.contributor.otherDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Tokyo
dc.contributor.otherNational Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
dc.contributor.otherNASA Goddard Space Flight Center
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-02T15:11:22Z
dc.date.available2022-08-02T15:11:22Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractVarious extensions of the Standard Model motivate the existence of stable magnetic monopoles that could have been created during an early high-energy epoch of the Universe. These primordial magnetic monopoles would be gradually accelerated by cosmic magnetic fields and could reach high velocities that make them visible in Cherenkov detectors such as IceCube. Equivalently to electrically charged particles, magnetic monopoles produce direct and indirect Cherenkov light while traversing through matter at relativistic velocities. This paper describes searches for relativistic (\(\upsilon ≥ 0.76 c\)) and mildly relativistic (\(upsilon ≥ 0.51 c\)) monopoles, each using one year of data taken in 2008/2009 and 2011/2012, respectively. No monopole candidate was detected. For a velocity above 0.51 \(c\) the monopole flux is constrained down to a level of 1.55 × 10⁻¹⁸ cm⁻² s⁻¹ sr⁻¹. This is an improvement of almost two orders of magnitude over previous limits.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationAartsen, M. G., Abraham, K., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Archinger, M., Arguelles, C., Arlen, T. C., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., … Zoll, M. (2016). Searches for relativistic magnetic monopoles in IceCube. In The European Physical Journal C (Vol. 76, Issue 3). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3953-8
dc.identifier.doi10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3953-8
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2740-9714
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/8661
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subjectPARTICLE
dc.subjectPERFORMANCE
dc.subjectSCATTERING
dc.subjectSPECTRUM
dc.subjectICE
dc.subjectPhysics, Particles & Fields
dc.subjectPhysics
dc.titleSearches for relativistic magnetic monopoles in IceCubeen_US
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