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Search for slow magnetic monopoles with the NOvA detector on the surface
- Creators
- Acero, M. A.
- Adamson, P.
- Aliaga, L.
- Alion, T.
- Allakhverdian, V.
- Anfimov, N.
- Antoshkin, A.
- Arrieta-Diaz, E.
- Asquith, L.
- Aurisano, A.
- Back, A.
- Backhouse, C.
- Baird, M.
- Balashov, N.
- Baldi, P.
- Bambah, B. A.
- Bashar, S.
- Bays, K.
- Bending, S.
- Bernstein, R.
- Bhatnagar, V.
- Bhuyan, B.
- Bian, J.
- Blair, J.
- Booth, A. C.
- Bour, P.
- Bowles, R.
- Bromberg, C.
- Buchanan, N.
- Butkevich, A.
- Calvez, S.
- Carroll, T. J.
- Catano-Mur, E.
- Childress, S.
- Choudhary, B. C.
- Coan, T. E.
- Colo, M.
- Corwin, L.
- Cremonesi, L.
- Davies, G. S.
- Derwent, P. F.
- Ding, P.
- Djurcic, Z.
- Dolce, M.
- Doyle, D.
- Dueñas Tonguino, D.
- Dung, P.
- Dukes, E. C.
- Duyang, H.
- Edayath, S.
- Ehrlich, R.
- Elkins, M.
- Feldman, G. J.
- Filip, P.
- Flanagan, W.
- Franc, J.
- Frank, M. J.
- Gallagher, H. R.
- Gandrajula, R.
- Gao, F.
- Germani, S.
- Giri, A.
- Gomes, R. A.
- Goodman, M. C.
- Grichine, V.
- Groh, M.
- Group, R.
- Guo, B.
- Habig, A.
- Hakl, F.
- Hall, A.
- Hartnell, J.
- Hatcher, R.
- Heller, K.
- Hewes, J.
- Himmel, A.
- Holin, A.
- Huang, J.
- Hylen, J.
- Jarosz, J.
- Jediny, F.
- Johnson, C.
- Judah, M.
- Kakorin, I.
- Kalra, D.
- Kaplan, D. M.
- Keloth, R.
- Klimov, O.
- Koerner, L. W.
- Kolupaeva, L.
- Kotelnikov, S.
- Kullenberg, Ch.
- Kubu, M.
- Kumar, A.
- Kuruppu, C. D.
- Kus, V.
- Lackey, T.
- Lang, K.
- Li, L.
- Lin, S.
- Lister, A.
- Lokajicek, M.
- Luchuk, S.
- Magill, S.
- Mann, W. A.
- Marshak, M. L.
- Martinez-Casales, M.
- Matveev, V.
- Mayes, B.
- Méndez, D. P.
- Messier, M. D.
- Meyer, H.
- Miao, T.
- Miller, W. H.
- Mishra, S. R.
- Mislivec, A.
- Mohanta, R.
- Moren, A.
- Morozova, A.
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Mualem, L.
- Muether, M.
- Mufson, S.
- Mulder, K.
- Murphy, R.
- Musser, J.
- Naples, D.
- Nayak, N.
- Nelson, J. K.
- Nichol, R.
- Niner, E.
- Norman, A.
- Norrick, A.
- Nosek, T.
- Olshevskiy, A.
- Olson, T.
- Paley, J.
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Patterson, R. B.
- Pawloski, G.
- Petrova, O.
- Petti, R.
- Plunkett, R. K.
- Rafique, A.
- Raj, V.
- Ramson, B.
- Rebel, B.
- Rojas, P.
- Ryabov, V.
- Samoylov, O.
- Sanchez, M. C.
- Sánchez Falero, S.
- Shanahan, P.
- Sheshukov, A.
- Singh, P.
- Singh, V.
- Smith, E.
- Smolik, J.
- Snopok, P.
- Solomey, N.
- Song, E.
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Sousa, A.
- Soustruznik, K.
- Strait, M.
- Suter, L.
- Sutton, A.
- Swain, S.
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Sweeney, C.
- Tapia Oregui, B.
- Tas, P.
- Thayyullathil, R. B.
- Thomas, J.
- Tiras, E.
- Torbunov, D.
- Tripathi, J.
- Trokan-Tenorio, J.
- Torun, Y.
- Urheim, J.
- Vahle, P.
- Vallari, Z.
- Vasel, J.
- Vokac, P.
- Vrba, T.
- Wallbank, M.
- Wang, Z.
- Warburton, T. K.
- Wetstein, M.
- Whittington, D.
- Wickremasinghe, D. A.
- Wojcicki, S. G.
- Wolcott, J.
- Xiao, Y.
- Yallappa Dombara, A.
- Yonehara, K.
- Yu, S.
- Yu, Y.
- Zadorozhnyy, S.
- Zalesak, J.
- Zhang, Y.
- Zwaska, R.
- NOvA Collaboration
Abstract
We 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 < β < 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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© 2021 Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. Received 10 September 2020; accepted 22 December 2020; published 11 January 2021. This document was prepared by the NOvA collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RFBR, RMES, RSF, and BASIS Foundation, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; STFC, and the Royal Society, United Kingdom; and the state and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staffs of the University of Minnesota at the Ash River Laboratory and of Fermilab.Attached Files
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- DE-AC02-07CH11359
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Department of Science and Technology (India)
- European Research Council (ERC)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic)
- Charles University Grant Agency (GA UK)
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Russian Ministry of Education and Science
- Russian Science Foundation
- BASIS Foundation
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás (FAPEG)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Royal Society
- State of Minnesota
- University of Minnesota
- SCOAP3
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