MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
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MAGNETIC MONOPOLESAndrey ShmakovPhysics 129 Fall 2010UC Berkeley
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OVERVIEW
Dirac Monopoles Appeal to symmetry Quantum Mechanical explanation
GUT Monopoles Symmetry Breaking Gauge Theories
Monopole Searches Methods Experiments
Current Experimental Limits Nothing! Graphs!
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DIRAC MONOPOLE
The Dirac Relation:
Angular Momentum of a test particle around a magnetic charge:
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DIRAC MONOPOLE
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GUT MONOPOLE
Symmetry is lost during phase transitions
Water: isotropic, fullRotational symmetry
Ice: Crystal LatticeWith preferred axis
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GUTMONOPOLE
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GUT MONOPOLE
Phase transitions cause topological defects
Causality forces distant regions to precipitate into different states
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ASIDE: GAUGE INVARIANCE We intuitively understand position, time,
rotational, and potential invariance These transformations are universal
What if our transformation was a smooth function of space-time?
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ASIDE: GAUGE INVARIANCE
UGH! Let’s Try that again
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http://www.vttoth.com/gauge.htm
http://www.vttoth.com/gauge.htm
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EXPERIMENTALISTS!MEET MR MONO POLE!
Charge:
Coupling constant:
Mass Assume monopole classical radius ~ electron
radius
GUT Mass depends on symmetry breaking
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EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES: EXPLOITABLE PROPERTIES
o Monopoles acquire energy in the galactic MF
oMonopoles can get trapped in ferromagnetic materials, stopped in celestial bodies
o Interactions:•High Energy: Behave like electrons:
synchrotron radiation, heavy energy loss, measurablewith scintillation counters.
•Slow Monopoles: ionizing radiation, detectable
•Very Slow Monopoles: elastic collisions,infrared radiation
•Interaction with superconducting magnets: regardless of
velocity
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EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES:SQUIDS
A magnetic monopole passing through a superconducting loop will induce a very distinct signal
Equally sensitive at all velocities and monopole masses
Used to test materials for embedded monopoles
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EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES: TANTALIZING CANDIDATES
On Valentines Day, 1982, a superconductinginduction coil detector recorded thisevent
Phys Rev. Lett. 48 1378 (1982)
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EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES:COSMOLOGY Experiments are conducted to measure a flux
of magnetic monopoles that hit the earth as cosmic rays
There are theoretical limits on the flux of heavy MM from the galactic MF
Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory (MACRO) searched for superheavy MM in the beta < 1 range.
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EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES: COSMOLOGICAL LIMITS
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EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES:DIRECT TESTS Accelerators used to probe for possible light
Dirac monopoles
Tevatron collision exclude energies below 850GeV
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EXPERIMENTAL SEARCHES: DIRECT TESTS
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CONCLUSION Monopoles are hypothetical, but predicted by
the most major theoretical models No confirmed repeatable monopole events
have been recorded Strong lower limits on energy place Dirac
monopoles out of reach of colliders Strong upper limits on cosmic ray flux
Maybe finding reason they don’t exist is more interesting than finding them?