Search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles and nuclearites with the SLIM experiment

S. Cecchini, T. Chiarusi, D. Di Ferdinando, M. Cozzi, M. Frutti, G. Giacomelli, A. Kumar, S. Manzoor, J. McDonald, E. Medinaceli, J. Nogales, L. Patrizii, J. Pinfold, V. Popa, I. E. Qureshi, O. Saavedra, G. Sher, M. I. Shahzad, M. Spurio, R. TiconaV. Togo, A. Velarde

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Abstract

SLIM is a large area experiment (440 m2) installed at the Chacaltaya cosmic ray laboratory since 2001, and about 100 m2 at Koksil, Himalaya, since 2003. It is devoted to the search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles (107-1013 GeV/c2) and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation using stacks of CR-39 and Makrofol nuclear track detectors. In four years of operation it will reach a sensitivity to a flux of about 10-15 cm-2 s-1 sr-1. We present the results of the calibration of CR-39 and Makrofol and the analysis of a first sample of the exposed detector.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)405-409
Number of pages5
JournalRadiation Measurements
Volume40
Issue number2-6
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2005
EventProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Tracks in Soils -
Duration: 23 Aug 200427 Aug 2004

Keywords

  • Chemical etching
  • Magnetic monopoles
  • Nuclear track detectors
  • Nuclearites
  • Q-balls
  • SLIM experiment

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