Magnetic Monopole Search at high altitude with the SLIM experiment

Abstract

The SLIM experiment was a large array of nuclear track detectors located at the Chacaltaya high altitude Laboratory (5230 m a.s.l.). The detector was in particular sensitive to Intermediate Mass Magnetic Monopoles, with masses 10^5 < M <10^{12} GeV. From the analysis of the full detector exposed for more than 4 years a flux upper limit of 1.3 x 10^{-15} cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1} for downgoing fast Intermediate Mass Monopoles was established at the 90% C.L.

arXiv comment11 pages. 11 EPS figures. Added Fig. 5 and ref. [15]. Added more details in Sect. 2 and 3

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