| Title: |
Search for slow magnetic monopoles with the NOvA detector on the surface |
| Authors: |
Acero, Mario A.; Adamson, P.; Aliaga, Leo; Meyer, Holger; Muether, Mathew; Solomey, Nickolas |
| Publisher Information: |
American Physical Society |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
Wichita State University: SOAR (Shocker Open Access Repository) |
| Subject Terms: |
Cosmic ray composition & spectra; Hypothetical particle physics models; Particle astrophysics; Magnetic monopoles; Neutrino detectors |
| Description: |
© 2021 authors. Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license ; 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 $2\times 10^{-14} \mathrm{cm^{-2}s^{-1}sr^{-1}}$ at 90% C.L. for monopole speed $6\times 10^{-4} < \beta < 5\times 10^{-3}$ and mass greater than $5\times 10^{8}$ GeV. Because of NOvA's small overburden of 3 meters-water equivalent, this constraint covers a previously unexplored low-mass region. ; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, National Science Foundation, RSF Social Finance, U.S. Department of Energy, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Royal Society, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás, European Research Council, University of Minnesota, Basis Foundation, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Royal Astronomical Society |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
Physical Review D;Vol. 103, Iss. 1; Acero, M. A., Adamson, P., Aliaga, L., Alion, T., Allakhverdian, V., Anfimov, N., . . . (NOvA Collaboration). (2021). Search for slow magnetic monopoles with the NOvA detector on the surface. Physical Review D, 103(1) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012007; https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012007; https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/19738 |
| DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012007 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012007; https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/19738 |
| Rights: |
© 2021 authors. Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.5DC5B361 |
| Database: |
BASE |