Search for magnetic monopoles with ten years of the ANTARES neutrino telescope
Abstract
This work presents a new search for magnetic monopoles using data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope over a period of 10 years (January 2008 to December 2017). Compared to previous ANTARES searches, this analysis uses a run-by-run simulation strategy, with a larger exposure as well as a new simulation of magnetic monopoles taking into account the Kasama, Yang and Goldhaber model for their interaction cross-section with matter. No signal compatible with the passage of relativistic magnetic monopoles is observed, and upper limits on the flux of magnetic monopoles with β = v / c ≥ 0.55, are presented. For ultra-relativistic magnetic monopoles the flux limit is ∼ 7 ×10-18 cm-2s-1sr-1.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- June 2022
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.jheap.2022.03.001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2202.13786
- Bibcode:
- 2022JHEAp..34....1A
- Keywords:
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- ANTARES telescope;
- Magnetic monopoles;
- Neutrino;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 20 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Journal of High Energy Astrophysics