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Status of Stanford Superconductive Monopole Detectors

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Magnetic Monopoles

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series ((NSSB,volume 102))

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The theoretical similarities between flux quantization in superconductors and Dirac magnetic monopoles make superconductive systems natural detectors for these elusive particles. More recently, grand unification theories have been shown to predict the existence of stable supermassive magnetically charged particles possessing the Dirac unit of magnetic charge. These particles would be nonrelativistic, weakly ionizing, and extremely penetrating; and thus may have eluded previous searches. In this paper we describe three generations of superconductive detectors designed to look for a cosmic-ray flux of such particles.

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  1. Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA

    Blas Cabrera

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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA

    Richard A. Carrigan Jr.

  2. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

    W. Peter Trower

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Cabrera, B. (1983). Status of Stanford Superconductive Monopole Detectors. In: Carrigan, R.A., Trower, W.P. (eds) Magnetic Monopoles. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series, vol 102. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7370-8_12

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