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Search for slow magnetic monopoles with the NOvA detector on the surface
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posted on 2023-06-12, 09:46 authored by M A Acero, P Adamson, L Aliaga, Tyler Alion, V Allakhverdian, N Anfimov, A Antoshkin, E Arrieta-Diaz, Lily AsquithLily Asquith, M Baird, Alexander Craig Booth, Jeff HartnellJeff Hartnell, Brett MayesBrett Mayes, D P Méndez, Yibing Zhang, NOvA Collaboration, othersWe report a search for a magnetic monopole component of the cosmic-ray flux in a 95-day exposure of the NOvA experiment's Far Detector, a 14 kt segmented liquid scintillator detector designed primarily to observe GeV-scale electron neutrinos. No events consistent with monopoles were observed, setting an upper limit on the flux of 2×10-14 cm-2 s-1 sr-1 at 90% C.L. for monopole speed 6×10-4<ß<5×10-3 and mass greater than 5×108 GeV. Because of NOvA's small overburden of 3 meters-water equivalent, this constraint covers a previously unexplored low-mass region.
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