Direct Search for Dirac Magnetic Monopoles in pp̅ Collisions at p√s = 1:96 TeV

Authors

A. Abulencia, University of Illinois, Urbana
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
CDF Collaboration

Date of this Version

5-26-2006

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 201801 (2006). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2006 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We search for pair-produced Dirac magnetic monopoles in 35:7 pb^-1 of proton-antiproton collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). We find no monopole candidates corresponding to a 95% confidence-level cross-section limit σ c². Assuming a Drell-Yan pair-production mechanism, we set a mass limit m>360 GeV/c².