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Monopolium: the key to monopoles
Vicente VentoLuis N. EpeleCarlos A. García CanalHuner Fanchiottisubject
PhysicsParticle physicsPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Dirac (video compression format)High Energy Physics::LatticeMagnetic monopoleFísicaFOS: Physical sciencesElectric chargeCosmologyHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Bound stateMagnetic polesEngineering (miscellaneous)Particle Physics - Phenomenologydescription
Dirac showed that the existence of one magnetic pole in the universe could offer an explanation for the discrete nature of the electric charge. Magnetic poles appear naturally in most Grand Unified Theories. Their discovery would be of greatest importance for particle physics and cosmology. The intense experimental search carried thus far has not met with success. Moreover, if the monopoles are very massive their production is outside the range of present day facilities. A way out of this impasse would be if the monopoles bind to form monopolium, a monopole- antimonopole bound state, which is so strongly bound, that it has a relatively small mass. Under these circumstances it could be produced with present day facilities and the existence of monopoles could be indirectly proven. We study the feasibility of detecting monopolium in present and future accelerators.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-17 |