Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope: The IceCube Collaboration

European Physical Journal C

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-378

  Abbasi, R ^a   Abdou, Y ^b   Abu Zayyad, T ^c   Adams, J ^d   Aguilar, J A ^a   Ahlers, M ^e   Andeen, K ^a   Auffenberg, J ^f   Bai, X ^g   Baker, M ^a   Barwick, S W ^h   Bay, R ⁱ   Bazo Alba, J L ^j   Beattie, K ^k   Beatty, J J ^l   Bechet, S ^m   Becker, J K ⁿ   Becker, K H ^f   Benabderrahmane, M L ^j   BenZvi, S ^a   Berdermann, J ^j   Berghaus, P ^a   Berley, D ^o   Bernardini, E ^j   Bertrand, D ^m   Besson, D Z ^p   Bissok, M ^q   Blaufuss, E ^o   Boersma, D J ^q   Bohm, C ^r   Boser S ^s   Botner, O ^t   Bradley, L ^u   Braun, J ^a   Buitink, S ^k   Carson, M ^b   Chirkin, D ^a   Christy, B ^o   Clem, J ^g   Clevermann, F ^v   Cohen, S ^w   Colnard, C ^x   Cowen, D F ^u   D'Agostino, M V ⁱ   Danninger, M ^r   Davis, J C ^l   de Clercq, C ^y   Demirors L ^w   Depaepe, O ^y   Descamps, F ^b   Desiati, P ^a   de Vries Uiterweerd, G ^b   DeYoung, T ^u   Diaz Velez J C ^a   Dierckxsens, M ^m   Dreyer, J ⁿ   Dumm, J P ^a   Duvoort, M R ^z   Ehrlich, R ^o   Eisch, J ^a   Ellsworth, R W ^o   Engdegard O ^t   Euler, S ^q   Evenson, P A ^g   Fadiran, O ^aa   Fazely, A R ^ab   Feusels, T ^b   Filimonov, K ⁱ   Finley, C ^r   Foerster, M M ^u   Fox, B D ^u   Franckowiak, A ^s   Franke, R ^j   Gaisser, T K ^g   Gallagher, J ^ac   Geisler, M ^q   Gerhardt, L ^i,k   Gladstone, L ^a   Glusenkamp T ^q   Goldschmidt, A ^k   Goodman, J A ^o   Grant, D ^ad   Griesel, T ^ae   Gross A ^d,x   Grullon, S ^a   Gurtner, M ^f   Ha, C ^u   Hallgren, A ^t   Halzen, F ^a   Han, K ^d   Hanson, K ^a,m   Helbing, K ^f   Herquet, P ^af   Hickford, S ^d   Hill, G C ^a   Hoffman, K D ^o   Homeier, A ^s   Hoshina, K ^a   Hubert, D ^y   Huelsnitz, W ^o   Hulss J P ^q   Hulth, P O ^r   Hultqvist, K ^r   Hussain, S ^g   Ishihara, A ^ag   Jacobsen, J ^a   Japaridze, G S ^aa   Johansson, H ^r   Joseph, J M ^k   Kampert, K H ^f   Karg, T ^f   Karle, A ^a   Kelley, J L ^a   Kemming, N ^ah   Kenny, P ^p   Kiryluk, J ^i,k   Kislat, F ^j   Klein, S R ^i,k   Knops, S ^q   Kohne J H ^v   Kohnen, G ^af   Kolanoski, H ^ah   Kopke L ^ae   Koskinen, D J ^u   Kowalski, M ^s   Kowarik, T ^ae   Krasberg, M ^a   Krings, T ^q   Kroll, G ^ae   Kuehn, K ^l   Kuwabara, T ^g   Labare, M ^m   Lafebre, S ^u   Laihem, K ^q   Landsman, H ^a   Lauer, R ^j   Lehmann, R ^ah   Lennarz, D ^q   Lunemann J ^ae   Madsen, J ^c   Majumdar, P ^j   Marotta, A ^m   Maruyama, R ^a   Mase, K ^ag   Matis, H S ^k   Matusik, M ^f   Meagher, K ^o   Merck, M ^a   Meszaros P ^u   Meures, T ^q   Middell, E ^j   Milke, N ^v   Miller, J ^t   Montaruli, T ^a,ai   Morse, R ^a   Movit, S M ^u   Nahnhauer, R ^j   Nam, J W ^h   Naumann, U ^f   Niessen P ^g   Nygren, D R ^k   Odrowski, S ^x   Olivas, A ^o   Olivo, M ^n,t   O'Murchadha, A ^a   Ono, M ^ag   Panknin, S ^s   Paul, L ^q   Perez de los Heros C ^t   Petrovic, J ^m   Piegsa, A ^ae   Pieloth, D ^v   Porrata, R ⁱ   Posselt, J ^f   Price, P B ⁱ   Prikockis, M ^u   Przybylski, G T ^k   Rawlins, K ^aj   Redl, P ^o   Resconi, E ^x   Rhode, W ^v   Ribordy, M ^w   Rizzo, A ^y   Rodrigues, J P ^a   Roth, P ^o   Rothmaier, F ^ae   Rott, C ^l   Roucelle, C ^x   Ruhe, T ^v   Rutledge, D ^u   Ruzybayev, B ^g   Ryckbosch, D ^b   Sander, H G ^ae   Santander, M ^a   Sarkar, S ^e   Schatto, K ^ae   Schlenstedt, S ^j   Schmidt, T ^o   Schukraft, A ^q   Schultes, A ^f   Schulz, O ^x   Schunck, M ^q   Seckel, D ^g   Semburg, B ^f   Seo, S H ^r   Sestayo, Y ^x   Seunarine, S ^ak   Silvestri, A ^h   Slipak, A ^u   Spiczak, G M ^c   Spiering, C ^j   Stamatikos, M ^l,al   Stanev, T ^g   Stephens, G ^u   Stezelberger, T ^k   Stokstad, R G ^k   Stoyanov, S ^g   Strahler, E A ^y   Straszheim, T ^o   Sullivan, G W ^o   Swillens, Q ^m   Taavola, H ^t   Taboada, I ^am   Tamburro, A ^c   Tarasova, O ^j   Tepe, A ^am   Ter Antonyan, S ^ab   Tilav, S ^g   Toale, P A ^u   Toscano, S ^a   Tosi, D ^j   Turcan D ^o   van Eijndhoven, N ^y   Vandenbroucke, J ⁱ   van Overloop, A ^b   van Santen, J ^a   Voge, M ^x   Voigt, B ^j   Walck, C ^r   Waldenmaier, T ^ah   Wallraff, M ^q   Walter, M ^j   Weaver, Ch ^a   Wendt, C ^a   Westerhoff, S ^a   Whitehorn, N ^a   Wiebe, K ^ae   Wiebusch, C H ^q   Wikstrom G ^r   Williams, D R ^an   Wischnewski, R ^j   Wissing, H ^o   Wolf, M ^x   Woschnagg, K ⁱ   Xu, C ^g   Xu, X W ^ab   Yodh, G ^h   Yoshida, S ^ag   Zarzhitsky, P ^an   more..

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j DESY   (Germany)

^k LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

ⁿ RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^o University of Maryland   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^q RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^r STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^s UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^t UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^u PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^w EPFL   (Switzerland)

^x MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^y VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^z UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^aa CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^ae JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^af UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^ag CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ah HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^al NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^am GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^an UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958152557     PISSN: 14346044     EISSN: 14346052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1411-6     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. P. A. M. Dirac, Proc. R. Soc. A 133, 60-72 (1931).
2. H. Georgi, S. L. Glashow, Phys. Rev. Lett. 32, 438-441 (1974).
3. G. 't Hooft, Nucl. Phys. B 79, 276-284 (1974).
4. A. M. Polyakov, JETP Lett. 20, 194-195 (1974).
5. T. W. B. Kibble, J. Phys. A 9, 1387-1398 (1976).
6. H. Georgi, H. R. Quinn, S. Weinberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 33, 451-454 (1974).
7. M. Daniel, G. Lazarides, Q. Shafi, Nucl. Phys. B 170, 156 (1980).
8. G. Lazarides, C. Panagiotakopoulos, Q. Shafi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1707 (1987).
9. T. W. Kephart, Q. Shafi, Phys. Lett. B 520, 313-316 (2001).
10. S. D. Wick, T. W. Kephart, T. J. Weiler, P. L. Biermann, Astropart. Phys. 18, 663-687 (2003).
11. J. Preskill, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 34, 461-530 (1984).
12. M. S. Turner, E. N. Parker, T. J. Bogdan, Phys. Rev. D 26, 1296 (1982).
13. D. E. Groom, Phys. Rep. 140, 323 (1986).
14. M. Ambrosio et al., Eur. Phys. J. C 25, 511 (2002).
15. K. Antipin et al., Astropart. Phys. 29, 366 (2008).
16. S. P. Ahlen, Rev. Mod. Phys. 52, 121 (1980).
17. D. R. Tompkins, Phys. Rev. B 138, 248-250 (1965).
18. V. A. Rubakov, Rep. Prog. Phys. 51, 189-241 (1988).
19. C. G. Callan, Phys. Rev. D 25, 2141 (1982).
20. A. Pohl, Uppsala University, Ph. D. thesis, 2009.
21. A. Pohl, D. Hardtke, in Proc. 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico (2007).
22. http://pdg. lbl. gov/2009/AtomicNuclearProperties.
23. E. Andres et al., Nature 410, 441-443 (2001).
24. E. W. Kolb, M. S. Turner, The Early Universe (Addison Wesley, Reading, 1990).
25. M. Ackermann et al., J. Geophys. Res. 111D, 13203 (2006).
26. E. Andres et al., Astropart. Phys. 13, 1 (2000).
27. A. Karle, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 387, 274-277 (1997).
28. W.-M. Yao et al., J. Phys. G 33, 1-1232 (2006).
29. H. Wissing, RWTH Aachen University, Ph. D. thesis (2009).
30. D. Heck et al., Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Tech. Rep. FZK 6019 (1998).
31. N. N. Kalmykov, S. S. Ostapchenko, A. I. Pavlov, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 52B, 17-28 (1997).
32. J. R. Hoerandel, Astropart. Phys. 19, 193-220 (2003).
33. R. Glasstetter et al., in Proc. 26th ICRC, Salt Lake City, USA (1999).
34. T. Antoni et al., Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 513, 490-510 (2003).
35. D. Chirkin, W. Rhode, in Proc. 27th ICRC, Hamburg, Germany (2001).
36. S. Hundertmark, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ph. D. thesis (1999).
37. C. H. V. Wiebusch, Technical report (1998). http://www. physto. se/~amanda/local/siegmund/gen_2. html.
38. R. A. Fisher, Ann. Eugen. 7, 179-188 (1936).
39. V. J. Stenger, University of Hawaii at Manoa, External Report, HDC-1-90 (1990).
40. J. Ahrens et al., Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 524, 169-194 (2004).
41. W. H. Press et al., Numerical Recipes (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992).
42. G. C. Hill, K. Rawlins, Astropart. Phys. 19, 393-402 (2003).
43. R. Lang, Diploma thesis, Faculty of Sciences, University of Ulm (2005).
44. M. Ackermann et al., Astropart. Phys. 22, 339-353 (2005).
45. J. Conrad et al., Phys. Rev. D 67, 012002 (2003).
46. D. P. Hogan, D. Z. Besson, J. P. Ralston, I. Kravchenko, D. Seckel, Phys. Rev. D 78, 075031 (2008).
47. J. Ahrens et al., Astropart. Phys. 20, 507-532 (2004).
48. J. Ahrens et al., IceCube Preliminary Design Document (2004). http://www. icecube. wisc. edu/science/publications/pdd.
49. R. Abbasi et al., Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 601, 294 (2009).
50. B. Christy, University of Maryland at College Park, Ph. D. thesis (in preparation).