Magnetic monopoles and free fractionally charged states at accelerators and in cosmic rays

Kephart, Thomas W.; Leontaris, George K.; Shafi, Qaisar

doi:10.1007/jhep10(2017)176

Title: Magnetic monopoles and free fractionally charged states at accelerators and in cosmic rays

Journal Article · 25 October 2017 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10(2017)176 · OSTI ID:1512471

Kephart, Thomas W. ^[1]; Leontaris, George K. ^[2]; Shafi, Qaisar ^[3]

Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
Ioannina Univ., Ioannina (Greece)
Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)

Unified theories of strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions which have electric charge quantization predict the existence of topologically stable magnetic monopoles. Intermediate scale monopoles are comparable with detection energies of cosmic ray monopoles at IceCube and other cosmic ray experiments. Magnetic monopoles in some models can be significantly lighter and carry two, three or possibly even higher quanta of the Dirac magnetic charge. They could be light enough for their effects to be detected at the LHC either directly or indirectly. An example based on a D-brane inspired SU(3) _C × SU(3) _L × SU(3) _R (trinification) model with the monopole carrying three quanta of Dirac magnetic charge is presented. These theories also predict the existence of color singlet states with fractional electric charge which may be accessible at the LHC.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

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OSTI ID:: 1512471

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2017, Issue 10; ISSN 1029-8479

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