Title
Search for slow magnetic monopoles with the NOvA detector on the surface
Date Issued
11 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Acero M.A.
Adamson P.
Alion T.
Allakhverdian V.
Anfimov N.
Antoshkin A.
Arrieta-Diaz E.
Asquith L.
Aurisano A.
Back A.
Backhouse C.
Baird M.
Balashov N.
Baldi P.
Bambah B.A.
Bashar S.
Bays K.
Bending S.
Bernstein R.
Bhatnagar V.
Bhuyan B.
Bian J.
Blair J.
Booth A.C.
Bour P.
Bowles R.
Bromberg C.
Buchanan N.
Butkevich A.
Calvez S.
Carroll T.J.
Catano-Mur E.
Childress S.
Choudhary B.C.
Coan T.E.
Colo M.
Corwin L.
Cremonesi L.
Davies G.S.
Derwent P.F.
Ding P.
Djurcic Z.
Dolce M.
Doyle D.
Dueñas Tonguino D.
Dung P.
Dukes E.C.
Duyang H.
Edayath S.
Ehrlich R.
Elkins M.
Feldman G.J.
Filip P.
Flanagan W.
Franc J.
Frank M.J.
Gallagher H.R.
Gandrajula R.
Gao F.
Germani S.
Giri A.
Gomes R.A.
Goodman M.C.
Grichine V.
Groh M.
Group R.
Guo B.
Habig A.
Hakl F.
Hall A.
Hartnell J.
Hatcher R.
Heller K.
Hewes J.
Himmel A.
Holin A.
Huang J.
Hylen J.
Jarosz J.
Jediny F.
Johnson C.
Judah M.
Kakorin I.
Kalra D.
Kaplan D.M.
Keloth R.
Klimov O.
Koerner L.W.
Kolupaeva L.
Kotelnikov S.
Kullenberg C.
Kubu M.
Kumar A.
Kuruppu C.D.
Kus V.
Lackey T.
Lang K.
Li L.
Lin S.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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.
Volume
103
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85099278715
Source
Physical Review D
ISSN of the container
24700010
Sponsor(s)
This document was prepared by the NOvA collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RFBR, RMES, RSF, and BASIS Foundation, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; STFC, and the Royal Society, United Kingdom; and the state and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staffs of the University of Minnesota at the Ash River Laboratory and of Fermilab.
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