Search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles and nuclearites with the SLIM experiment
/ Authors
S. Cecchini, S. Cecchini, T. Chiarusi, D. Ferdinando, M. Cozzi, M. Frutti, G. Giacomelli, Ashavani Kumar, S. Manzoor, S. Manzoor
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J. Mcdonald, E. Medinaceli, E. Medinaceli, J. Nogales, L. Patrizii, J. Pinfold, V. Popa, I. Qureshi, O. Saavedra, G. Sher, M. Shahzad, M. Spurio, R. Ticona, V. Togo, A. Velarde
/ Abstract
Abstract SLIM is a large area experiment (440 m 2 ) installed at the Chacaltaya cosmic ray laboratory since 2001, and about 100 m 2 at Koksil, Himalaya, since 2003. It is devoted to the search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles (10 7 –10 13 GeV/ c 2 ) and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation using stacks of CR-39 and Makrofol nuclear track detectors. In four years of operation it will reach a sensitivity to a flux of about 10 - 15 cm - 2 s - 1 sr - 1 . We present the results of the calibration of CR-39 and Makrofol and the analysis of a first sample of the exposed detector.
Journal: Radiation Measurements