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Monopolium production from photon fusion at the Large Hadron Collider
Epele, Luis N.
Fanchiotti, Huner
García Canal, Carlos A.
Vento, Vicente
[PACS] Magnetic monopoles
[PACS] Elementary particle processes
[PACS] Unidentified sources of radiation outside the Solar System
[PACS] Cosmology
6 pages, 6 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 14.80.Hv; 95.30.Cq; 98.70.-f; 98.80.-k.-- Printed version published Aug 2009.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0272
Magnetic monopoles have attracted the attention of physicists since the founding of the electromagnetic theory. Their search has been a constant endeavor which was intensified when Dirac established the relation between the existence of monopoles and charge quantization. However, these searches have been unsuccessful. We have recently proposed that monopolium, a monopole-antimonopole bound state, so strongly bound that it has a relatively small mass, could be easier to find and become an indirect but clear signature for the existence of magnetic monopoles. Here we extend our previous analysis for its production to two photon fusion at LHC energies.
This work was done while one of us (VV) was on a sabbatical from the University of Valencia at the PH-TH at CERN, whose members he thanks for their hospitality. VV was supported by MECyT-FPA2007 and by MEC-Movilidad PR2007-0048. LNE, HF and CAGC were partially supported by CONICET
and ANPCyT Argentina.
Peer reviewed
2009-09-08T10:37:09Z
2009-09-08T10:37:09Z
2009-06-04
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
The European Physical Journal C 62(3): 587-592 (2009)
1434-6044
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/16713
10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1069-0
1434-6052
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1069-0
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