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A search for super-heavy gut magnetic monopoles in cosmic rays
| dc.contributor.advisor | Webb, Robert C. | |
| dc.creator | Shepko, Michael John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-02T21:00:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-02T21:00:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1986 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-24019 | |
| dc.description | Typescript (photocopy). | en |
| dc.description.abstract | A search for superheavy grand unified (GUT) magnetic monopoles has been performed utilizing a large (260m²sr) array of scintillation counters, sited underground at a depth of 1200 m.w.e. This apparatus measures both the time of flight and specific ionization of particles passing through it and has a trigger which is sensitive to prompt as well as very slowly developing pulses from the detector. No monopole events have been observed during 280 days of live time operation of this detector. An upper limit on the flux of monopoles of 4.6 x 10⁻¹⁴cm⁻²sr⁻¹s⁻¹ is obtained in the velocity range 8.5 x 10⁻⁴c to 0.012c at a 90% confidence level. | en |
| dc.format.extent | x, 136 leaves | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Major physics | en |
| dc.subject.classification | 1986 Dissertation S548 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Cosmic magnetic fields | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Magnetic monopoles | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Grand unified theories (Nuclear physics) | en |
| dc.title | A search for super-heavy gut magnetic monopoles in cosmic rays | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. in Physics | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctorial | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Bryan, Ronald A. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Fulling, Stephen A. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | McIntyre, Peter M. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Meyer, Thomas | |
| dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
| dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 18061769 |
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