2017/03/31 by A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi +120 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Detector #Flux (metallurgy) #Magnetic flux #Magnetic monopole #Monte Carlo method #Muon #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep07(2017)054
published as J. High Energ. Phys. (2017) 2017: 54 · 23 pages, 8 figures, introduction developed, sentences added about systematic uncertainties in sections 6 and 8, figure style changed, added references for section 8
openalex created_date 2017/03/16 · openalex publication_date 2017/07/01 · arxiv created 2017/07/06 · arxiv updated 2017/07/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
A search for magnetic monopoles using five years of data recorded with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from January 2008 to December 2012 with a total live time of 1121 days is presented. The analysis is carried out in the range β > 0.6 of magnetic monopole velocities using a strategy based on run-by-run Monte Carlo simulations. No signal above the background expectation from atmospheric muons and atmospheric neutrinos is observed, and upper limits are set on the magnetic monopole flux ranging from 5.7 × 10−16 to 1.5 × 10−18 cm−2·s−1·sr−1.