Acero, MA;
Adamson, P;
Aliaga, L;
Alion, T;
Allakhverdian, V;
Anfimov, N;
Antoshkin, A;
... Lin, S; + view all
(2021)
Search for slow magnetic monopoles with the NOvA detector on the surface.
Physical Review D
, 103
(1)
, Article 012007. 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012007.
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Abstract
We report a search for a magnetic monopole component of the cosmic-ray flux in a 95-day exposure of the NOvA experiment’s Far Detector, a 14 kt segmented liquid scintillator detector designed primarily to observe GeV-scale electron neutrinos. No events consistent with monopoles were observed, setting an upper limit on the flux of 2 × 10−14 cm−2 s−1 sr−1 at 90% C.L. for monopole speed 6 × 10−4 < β < 5 × 10−3 and mass greater than 5 × 108 GeV. Because of NOvA’s small overburden of 3 meters-water equivalent, this constraint covers a previously unexplored low-mass region.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Search for slow magnetic monopoles with the NOvA detector on the surface |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012007 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012007 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10119827 |
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