IFLP 13074
INSTITUTO DE FISICA LA PLATA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Monopolium: the key to monopoles
Autor/es:
L. N. EPELE, H. FANCHIOTTI, C. A. GARCIA CANAL, V. VENTO
Revista:
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C - PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Editorial:
Springer-Verlag
Referencias:
Año: 2008 p. 87 - 95
ISSN:
1434-6044
Resumen:
Dirac showed that the existence of one magnetic pole in the universe could offer an explanationfor the discrete nature of the electric charge. Magnetic poles appear naturally in most grand unified theories.Their discovery would be of the greatest importance for particle physics and cosmology. The intenseexperimental search carried out thus far has not met with success. Moreover, if the monopoles are very massivetheir production is outside the range of present day facilities. A way out of this impasse would be if themonopoles bind to form monopolium, a monopoleantimonopole bound state, which is so strongly boundthat it has a relatively small mass. Under these circumstances it could be produced with present day facilitiesand the existence of monopoles could be indirectly proven.We study the feasibility of detecting monopoliumin present and future accelerators.
