Search for magnetic monopoles with ten years of the ANTARES neutrino telescope

• Published in: Journal of high energy astrophysics Vol. 34; pp. 1 - 8
• Main Authors: Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Aubert, J.-J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bissinger, M., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M.C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Cherkaoui El Moursli, R., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A.F., de Wasseige, G., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., El Khayati, N., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Gracia Ruiz, R., Guidi, C., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J.J., Hößl, J., Huang, F., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N.R., Kouchner, A., LeStum, S., Lefèvre, D., Levi, G., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J.A., Migliozzi, P., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Ó Fearraigh, B., Păvălaş, G.E., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Pradier, T., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Salesa Greus, F., Samtleben, D.F.E., Sanguineti, M., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J.D., Zúñiga, J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.06.2022
• Subjects: ANTARES telescope; Magnetic monopoles; Neutrino; Magnetic monopoles; ANTARES telescope; Neutrino
• ISSN: 2214-4048
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jheap.2022.03.001

This work presents a new search for magnetic monopoles using data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope over a period of 10 years (January 2008 to December 2017). Compared to previous ANTARES searches, this analysis uses a run-by-run simulation strategy, with a larger exposure as well as a new simulation of magnetic monopoles taking into account the Kasama, Yang and Goldhaber model for their interaction cross-section with matter. No signal compatible with the passage of relativistic magnetic monopoles is observed, and upper limits on the flux of magnetic monopoles with β=v/c≥0.55, are presented. For ultra-relativistic magnetic monopoles the flux limit is ∼7×10−18 cm−2s−1sr−1.