Search for nucleon decays induced by GUT magnetic monopoles with the MACRO experiment
Battistoni, G.; Mufson, S.; Nicolò, D.; Choudhary, B. C.; Maaroufi, F.; Lamanna, E.; Vakili, M.; Bussino, S.; Ronga, F.; Antolini, R.; Bellotti, R.; Lipari, P.; Nolty, R.; Martello, D.; Grillo, A.; Palamara, O.; Surdo, A.; Campana, D.; Webb, R.; De Mitri, I.; Kim, H.; Reynoldson, J.; Marzari-Chiesa, A.; Becherini, Y.; Serra, P.; Giannini, G.; Favuzzi, C.; Walter, C. W.; Katsavounidis, E.; Bower, C. R.; Perrone, L.; Patrizii, L.; De Vincenzi, M.; Scapparone, E.; Baldini, A.; Marini, A.; Longley, N. P.; Auriemma, G.; Chiarella, V.; Calicchio, M.; Forti, C.; Gustavino, C.; Katsavounidis, I.; Cei, F.; Giacomelli, G.; Erriquez, O.; Peck, C. W.; Patera, V.; Pistilli, P.; Bakari, D.; De Marzo, C.; Michael, D. G.; Dekhissi, H.; Margiotta, A.; Fusco, P.; Derkaoui, J.; Kearns, E.; Steinberg, R.; Stone, James L.; Tarlè, G.; Barbarino, G. C.; Barish, B. C.; Togo, V.; Sulak, Lawrence R.; Cafagna, F.; Mandrioli, G.; Sciubba, A.; Cozzi, M.; Rainò, A.; Musser, J.; Caruso, R.; Monteno, M.; Mancarella, G.; Kyriazopoulou, S.; Petrera, S.; Popa, V.; Guarino, F.; Spinelli, P.; Longo, Michael J.; Monacelli, P.; Spinetti, M.; Grassi, M.; Spurio, M.; De Cataldo, G.; Rrhioua, A.; Bloise, C.; Ambrosio, M.; Bemporad, C.; Iarocci, E.; Habig, A.; Loparco, F.; Heinz, Richard Meade; Hanson, K.; Di Credico, A.; Osteria, G.; Carboni, M.; Montaruli, T.; Sitta, M.; Giorgini, M.; Sirri, G.; Scholberg, K.; Satriano, C.; Pazzi, R.; Bilokon, H.; Bernardini, P.; Manzoor, S.; Lane, C.; Cecchini, S.; Mazziotta, M. N.; Orth, C.; Giglietto, N.; Brigida, M.; Levin, D. S.; Sioli, M.; Coutu, S.
2002-12
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Ambrosio, M.; Antolini, R.; Auriemma, G.; Bakari, D.; Baldini, A.; Barbarino, G.C.; Barish, B.C.; Battistoni, G.; Becherini, Y.; Bellotti, R.; Bemporad, C.; Bernardini, P.; Bilokon, H.; Bloise, C.; Bower, C.; Brigida, M.; Bussino, S.; Cafagna, F.; Calicchio, M.; Campana, D.; Carboni, M.; Caruso, R.; Cecchini, S.; Cei, F.; Chiarella, V.; Choudhary, B.C.; Coutu, S.; Cozzi, M.; De Cataldo, G.; Dekhissi, H.; De Marzo, C.; De Mitri, I.; Derkaoui, J.; De Vincenzi, M.; Di Credico, A.; Erriquez, O.; Favuzzi, C.; Forti, C.; Fusco, P.; Giacomelli, G.; Giannini, G.; Giglietto, N.; Giorgini, M.; Grassi, M.; Grillo, A.; Guarino, F.; Gustavino, C.; Habig, A.; Hanson, K.; Heinz, R.; Iarocci, E.; Katsavounidis, E.; Katsavounidis, I.; Kearns, E.; Kim, H.; Kyriazopoulou, S.; Lamanna, E.; Lane, C.; Levin, D.S.; Lipari, P.; Longley, N.P.; Longo, M.J.; Loparco, F.; Maaroufi, F.; Mancarella, G.; Mandrioli, G.; Manzoor, S.; Margiotta, A.; Marini, A.; Martello, D.; Marzari-Chiesa, A.; Mazziotta, M.N.; Michael, D.G.; Monacelli, P.; Montaruli, T.; Monteno, M.; Mufson, S.; Musser, J.; Nicolò, D.; Nolty, R.; Orth, C.; Osteria, G.; Palamara, O.; Patera, V.; Patrizii, L.; Pazzi, R.; Peck, C.W.; Perrone, L.; Petrera, S.; Pistilli, P.; Popa, V.; Rainò, A.; Reynoldson, J.; Ronga, F.; Rrhioua, A.; Satriano, C.; Scapparone, E.; Scholberg, K.; Sciubba, A.; Serra, P.; Sioli, M.; Sirri, G.; Sitta, M.; Spinelli, P.; Spinetti, M.; Spurio, M.; Steinberg, R.; Stone, J.L.; Sulak, L.R.; Surdo, A.; Tarlè, G.; Togo, V.; Vakili, M.; Walter, C.W.; Webb, R.; (2002). "Search for nucleon decays induced by GUT magnetic monopoles with the MACRO experiment." The European Physical Journal C 26(2): 163-172. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42340>
Abstract
The interaction of a Grand Unification Magnetic Monopole with a nucleon can lead to a barion-number violating process in which the nucleon decays into a lepton and one or more mesons (catalysis of nucleon decay). In this paper we report an experimental study of the effects of a catalysis process in the MACRO detector. Using a dedicated analysis we obtain new magnetic monopole (MM) flux upper limits at the level of for , based on the search for catalysis events in the MACRO data. We also analyze the dependence of the MM flux limit on the catalysis cross section.Publisher
Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg / Società Italiana di Fisica
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1434-6044
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