Journal
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume 35, Issue 10, Pages 634-640Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.02.007
Keywords
Magnetic monopole; Neutrino telescopes; ANTARES
Funding
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Commissariat a l' energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- Commission Europeenne
- Region Alsace (contrat CPER)
- Region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
- Departement du Var and Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy
- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM)
- Nederlandse organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), The Netherlands
- Council of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and leading scientific schools, Russia
- National Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS), Romania
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN)
- Prometeo of Generalitat Valenciana (GVA)
- MultiDark, Spain
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Magnetic monopoles are predicted in various unified gauge models and could be produced at intermediate mass scales. Their detection in a neutrino telescope is facilitated by the large amount of light emitted compared to that from muons. This paper reports on a search for upgoing relativistic magnetic monopoles with the ANTARES neutrino telescope using a data set of 116 days of live time taken from December 2007 to December 2008. The one observed event is consistent with the expected atmospheric neutrino and muon background, leading to a 90% C.L. upper limit on the monopole flux between 1.3 x 10-(17) and 8.9 x 10(-17) CM-2 s(-1) sr(-1) for monopoles with velocity beta >= 0.625. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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