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Monopole search comes up empty-handed 

Fermilab physicists report no evidence of magnetic monopoles in high-energy collisions between protons and antiprotons.

 

References: 

Abbott, B., et al. In press. Search for heavy pointlike Dirac monopoles. Physical Review Letters.

 

Further Readings: 

He, Y.D. 1997. Search for a Dirac magnetic monopole in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. Physical Review Letters 79(Oct. 27):3134.

Peterson, I. 1995. Extra data bolster top quark discovery. Science News 147(March 11):149.

______. 1991. Hunting down the magnetic monopole. Science News 140(Oct. 5):219.

Thomsen, D.E. 1982. To catch a monopole. Science News 122(Dec. 4):362.

______. 1982. Coming unstrung over monopoles. Science News 122(Nov. 27):348.

Additional information about the Fermilab search for heavy magnetic monopoles is available at http://www-D0.fnal.gov/public/pubs/monopole_prl/monopole_prl.html.

 

Sources:

Greg Landsberg
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
P.O. Box 500
Batavia, IL 60510

 

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