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Search for Magnetic Monopoles in Lunar Material

Author(s) -

Philippe Eberhard,

R. R. Ross,

Luis W. Alvarez,

Robert D. Watt

Publication year - 1971

Publication title -

physical review. d. particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/physical review. d. particles and fields

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1089-4918

pISSN - 0556-2821

DOI - 10.1103/physrevd.4.3260

Subject(s) - magnetic monopole , physics , cosmic ray , nucleon , charge (physics) , dirac (video compression format) , flux (metallurgy) , nuclear physics , electric charge , magnetic flux , quantum electrodynamics , magnetic field , particle physics , quantum mechanics , materials science , neutrino , metallurgy

Magnetic monopoles in 19.8 kg. of lunar material returned by Apollo 11, 12 and 14 missions were investigated. The search was done with a detector which is capable of detecting any single monopole of any charge equal to or larger than the minimum value compatible with Dirac's theory. Two experiments were performed, each one with different lunar material. In each experiment the lunar material was divided into several measurement samples. No monopole was found. The magnetic charge of each sample was consistent with zero.

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