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Search for ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles with the Pierre Auger observatory

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dc.contributor.authorArqueros Martínez, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorGarcía Pinto, Diego
dc.contributor.authorMinaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés
dc.contributor.authorVázquez Peñas, José Ramón
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-17T21:48:34Z
dc.date.available2023-06-17T21:48:34Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-03
dc.description© Amer Physical Soc 2016. Autoría conjunta: Pierre Auger Collaboration. Artículo firmado por más de 10 autores. The successful installation, commissioning, and operation of the Pierre Auger observatory would not have been possible without the strong commitment and effort from the technical and administrative staff in Malargue. We are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (ANPCyT), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), and Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza, Municipalidad de Malargue, NDM Holdings and Valle Las Lenas, Argentina, in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access; the Australian Research Council; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Grants No. 2010/07359-6 and No. 1999/05404-3, Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia (MCT), Brazil, Grants No. MSMT CR LG15014, No. LO1305 and No. LM2015038 and the Czech Science Foundation Grant No. 14-17501S, Czech Republic; Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Conseil Regional Ile-de-France, Departement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), and Institut Lagrange de Paris (ILP) Grant No. LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63, within the Investissements d'Avenir Programme Grant No. ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02, France; Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg, Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, Nordrhein Westfalen, Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR), Gran Sasso Center for Astroparticle Physics (CFA), CETEMPS Center of Excellence, and Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE), Italy; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) Grant No. 167733, Mexico; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM, Mexico; Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), and Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Netherlands; National Centre for Research and Development, Grants No. ERANET-ASPERA/01/11 and No. ERA-NET-ASPERA/02/11, and National Science Centre, Grants No. 2013/08/M/ST9/00322, No. 2013/08/M/ST9/00728 and No. HARMONIA 5–2013/10/M/ST9/00062, Poland; Portuguese national funds and FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (COMPETE), Portugal; Romanian Authority for Scientific Research ANCS, CNDI-UEFISCDI partnership projects Grants No. 20/2012, No. 194/2012 and No. PN 16 42 01 02; Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia; Comunidad de Madrid, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) funds, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Xunta de Galicia, and European Community 7th Framework Program, Grant No. FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF-328826, Spain; Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom; Department of Energy Awards No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, No. DE-FR02-04ER41300, No. DE-FG02-99ER41107 and No. DE-SC0011689, National Science Foundation, Grant No. 0450696, and The Grainger Foundation, USA; NAFOSTED, Vietnam; Marie CurieIRSES/EPLANET, European Particle Physics Latin American Network, European Union 7th Framework Program, Grant No. PIRSES-2009-GA-246806; and UNESCO. This work was supported in part by NSF Grant No. PHY-1412261 and by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago through Grant No. NSF PHY-1125897 and an endowment from the Kavli Foundation and its founder Fred Kavli. T. F. was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship for Research Abroad Grant No. H25-339.
dc.description.abstractWe present a search for ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles with the Pierre Auger observatory. Such particles, possibly a relic of phase transitions in the early Universe, would deposit a large amount of energy along their path through the atmosphere, comparable to that of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The air-shower profile of a magnetic monopole can be effectively distinguished by the fluorescence detector from that of standard UHECRs. No candidate was found in the data collected between 2004 and 2012, with an expected background of less than 0.1 event from UHECRs. The corresponding 90% confidence level (C.L.) upper limits on the flux of ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles range from 10(-1)9 (cm(2) sr s)(-1) for a Lorentz factor gamma = 10(9) to 2.5 x 10(-21) (cm(2) sr s)(-1) for gamma = 10(12). These results-the first obtained with a UHECR detector-improve previously published limits by up to an order of magnitude.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Físicas
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipUnión Europea. FP7
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
dc.description.sponsorshipCzech Science Foundation, Czech Republic
dc.description.sponsorshipCentre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, France
dc.description.sponsorshipCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
dc.description.sponsorshipConseil Regional Ile-de-France, France
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), France
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), France
dc.description.sponsorshipInstitut Lagrange de Paris (ILP) Grant, within the Investissements d'Avenir Programme Grant, France
dc.description.sponsorshipBundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
dc.description.sponsorshipDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
dc.description.sponsorshipFinanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg
dc.description.sponsorshipHelmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP)
dc.description.sponsorshipHelmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, Nordrhein Westfalen
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
dc.description.sponsorshipIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
dc.description.sponsorshipIstituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)
dc.description.sponsorshipMinistero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR)
dc.description.sponsorshipGran Sasso Center for Astroparticle Physics (CFA)
dc.description.sponsorshipCETEMPS Center of Excellence
dc.description.sponsorshipMinistero degli Affari Esteri (MAE), Italy
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap
dc.description.sponsorshipNederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
dc.description.sponsorshipStichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Netherlands
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Centre for Research and Development
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Centre, Poland
dc.description.sponsorshipPortuguese national funds
dc.description.sponsorshipFEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (COMPETE), Portugal
dc.description.sponsorshipRomanian Authority for Scientific Research ANCS, CNDI-UEFISCDI partnership projects
dc.description.sponsorshipSlovenian Research Agency, Slovenia
dc.description.sponsorshipComunidad de Madrid, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) funds
dc.description.sponsorshipUNESCO
dc.description.sponsorshipXunta de Galicia
dc.description.sponsorshipScience and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment of Energy
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation
dc.description.statuspub
dc.eprint.idhttps://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/40553
dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevD.94.082002
dc.identifier.issn2470-0010
dc.identifier.officialurlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.082002
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttp://journals.aps.org/
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/17570
dc.issue.number8
dc.journal.titlePhysical review D
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmer Physical Soc
dc.relation.projectIDAUGER2FUTURE (328826)
dc.relation.projectIDEPLANET (246806)
dc.relation.projectID14-17501S
dc.relation.projectIDLABEX ANR-10-LABX-63
dc.relation.projectIDANR-11-IDEX-0004-02
dc.relation.projectIDERA-NET-ASPERA/01/11
dc.relation.projectIDERA-NET-ASPERA/02/11
dc.relation.projectID2013/08/M/ST9/00322
dc.relation.projectID2013/08/M/ST9/00728
dc.relation.projectIDHARMONIA 5-2013/10/M/ST9/00062
dc.relation.projectID20/2012
dc.relation.projectID194/2012
dc.relation.projectIDPN 16 42 01 02
dc.relation.projectIDDE-AC02-07CH11359
dc.relation.projectIDDE-FR02-04ER41300
dc.relation.projectIDDE-FG02-99ER41107
dc.relation.projectIDDE-SC0011689
dc.relation.projectID0450696
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.cdu539.1
dc.subject.keywordFluorescence yield
dc.subject.keywordEnergy loss
dc.subject.keywordDetector
dc.subject.keywordFlux
dc.subject.ucmFísica nuclear
dc.subject.unesco2207 Física Atómica y Nuclear
dc.titleSearch for ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles with the Pierre Auger observatory
dc.typejournal article
dc.volume.number94
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