Search for magnetic monopoles with the nuclear track detector of the MACRO experiment at Gran Sasso

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 28, Issue 1-6, 1997, Pages 297-302

  Popa, V ^a,b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

Author keywords

CR 39; MACRO experiment; Magnetic monopoles; Parker bound; REL

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

MAGNETIC MONOPOLES; NUCLEAR TRACK DETECTORS; TRACK ETCH DETECTORS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0031342556     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(97)00086-3     Document Type: Article

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