DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2002-01045-x
Search for nucleon decays induced by GUT magnetic monopoles with the MACRO experiment
M. Ambrosio et al.(Received: 2 August 2002 / Published online: 25 October 2002 )
Abstract
The interaction of a Grand Unification Magnetic Monopole with a nucleon can lead to a
barion-number violating process in which the nucleon decays into a lepton and
one or more mesons (catalysis of nucleon decay).
In this paper we report an experimental study of the effects of a catalysis
process in the MACRO detector. Using a dedicated analysis we obtain new
magnetic monopole (MM) flux upper limits at the level of
for
, based on the search for catalysis events in
the MACRO data. We also analyze the dependence of the MM flux limit on
the catalysis cross section.
© Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 2002
