Search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles and nuclearites with the SLIM experiment

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 40, Issue 2-6, 2005, Pages 405-409

  Cecchini, S ^a,b   Chiarusi, T ^a   Di Ferdinando, D ^a   Cozzi, M ^a   Frutti, M ^a   Giacomelli, G ^a   Kumar, A ^a,c   Manzoor, S ^a,d   McDonald, J ^e   Medinaceli, E ^a,f   Nogales, J ^f   Patrizii, L ^a   Pinfold, J ^e   Popa, V ^a,g   Qureshi, I E ^d   Saavedra, O ^h   Sher, G ^d   Shahzad, M I ^d   Spurio, M ^a   Ticona, R ^f   Togo, V ^a   Velarde, A ^f   more..

^a INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c SANT LONGOWAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^g INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemical etching; Magnetic monopoles; Nuclear track detectors; Nuclearites; Q balls; SLIM experiment

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; RADIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL ETCHING; MAGNETIC MONOPOLES; NUCLEARITES; Q-BALLS; SLIM EXPERIMENT;

ETCHING;

EID: 27744522511     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2005.01.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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