Do heavy Monopoles hide from us ?

Dirac showed that the existence of one magnetic pole in the universe could offer an explanation of the discrete nature of the electric charge. Magnetic poles appear naturally in most grand unified theories. Their discovery would be of greatest importance for particle physics and cosmology. The inten...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Huner Fanchiotti, García Canal, C A, Vento, Vicente
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 03.10.2024
Subjects
Current carriers
Electric charge
Grand unified theory
Magnetic poles
Magnetic properties
Monopoles
Particle physics
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Summary:Dirac showed that the existence of one magnetic pole in the universe could offer an explanation of the discrete nature of the electric charge. Magnetic poles appear naturally in most grand unified theories. Their discovery would be of greatest importance for particle physics and cosmology. The intense experimental search carried thus far has not met with success. In order to understand this lack of success we studied monopolium a monopole anti-monopole bound state with properties very different from monopoles in which monopoles could be hiding. In here, we propose another mechanism, namely that magnetic poles bind deeply with some neutral states hiding in this way some of the properties of the free monopoles. We study different scenarios of these systems and analyze their detectability. In particular, one scenario is very interesting because it leads to a light state, an analog of an electron with magnetic instead of electric charge, which we call magnetron.
ISSN:2331-8422