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Magnetic Monopole Mass Bounds from Heavy-Ion Collisions and Neutron Stars

Oliver Gould and Arttu Rajantie
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 241601 – Published 12 December 2017
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Abstract

Magnetic monopoles, if they exist, would be produced amply in strong magnetic fields and high temperatures via the thermal Schwinger process. Such circumstances arise in heavy-ion collisions and in neutron stars, both of which imply lower bounds on the mass of possible magnetic monopoles. In showing this, we construct the cross section for pair production of magnetic monopoles in heavy-ion collisions, which indicates that they are particularly promising for experimental searches such as MoEDAL.

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  • Received 22 June 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.241601

Published by the American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & AstrophysicsParticles & Fields

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Minimum Mass of Magnetic Monopoles

Published 12 December 2017

A new analysis places some of the tightest bounds yet on the mass that magnetic monopoles should have if they exist.

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Oliver Gould* and Arttu Rajantie

  • Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

  • *o.gould13@imperial.ac.uk
  • a.rajantie@imperial.ac.uk

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Vol. 119, Iss. 24 — 15 December 2017

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