Magnetic monopoles: a status report

Technical Report · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6427198· OSTI ID:6427198

Carrigan, Jr, R A; Trower, W P

A solitary, uncorroborated Stanford candidate event is the only evidence that magnetic monpoles derives from Dirac's assertion that monopoles could explain charge quantization and the 't Hooft-Polyakov demonstration that monopoles are an inevitable consequence of many gauge theories currently being used to unify the electroweak (photon-lepton) and nuclear (quark) interactions. The monopole abundance implied by the Stanford event is in clear contradiction to bounds on their number from astronomical data. Fortunately, the already considerable and expanding arsenal of detection techniques are being fashioned to experimentally test the many open questions surrounding monopoles.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 6427198
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-83/31; ON: DE83010925
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
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ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
IONIZING RADIATIONS
MONOPOLES
POSTULATED PARTICLES
RADIATIONS
645100* - High Energy Physics- Particle Interactions & Properties-Experimental