Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with five years of the ANTARES detector data

A. Albert (1) , M. André , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J.-J. Aubert (2) , T. Avgitas (3) , B. Baret (3) , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa (4) , V. Bertin (2) , S. Biagi , R. Bormuth , S. Bourret (3) , M.C. Bouwhuis , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner (2) , J. Busto (2) , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr (2) , S. Celli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J.A.B. Coelho (3) , A. Coleiro (3) , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini (2) , P. Coyle (2) , A. Creusot (3) , A. Deschamps (5) , G. de Bonis , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud (3, 6) , D. Dornic (2) , D. Drouhin (1) , T. Eberl , I. El Bojaddaini , D. Elsässer , A. Enzenhöfer (2) , I. Felis , L.A. Fusco , S. Galatà (3) , P. Gay (3, 7) , V. Giordano , H. Glotin (8, 9, 10) , T. Grégoire (3) , R. Gracia Ruiz (3) , K. Graf , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A.J. Heijboer , Y. Hello (5) , J.J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hössl , J. Hofestädt , C. Hugon , G. Illuminati , C.W James , M. de Jong , M. Jongen , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , D. Kiessling , A. Kouchner (3, 10) , M. Kreter , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy (2) , C. Lachaud (3) , R. Lahmann , D. Lefèvre (11) , E. Leonora , M. Lotze , S. Loucatos (12, 3) , M. Marcelin (4) , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J.A. Martínez-Mora , R. Mele , K. Melis , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , S. Navas , E. Nezri (4) , M. Organokov (13) , G.E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier (13) , L. Quinn (2) , C. Racca (1) , G. Riccobene , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Saldaña , I. Salvadori (2) , D.F.E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , F. Schüssler (12) , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk (12) , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , A. Trovato , D. Turpin (2) , C. Tönnis , B. Vallage (12, 3) , V. van Elewyck (3, 10) , F. Versari , D. Vivolo , A. Vizzoca , J. Wilms , J.D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

1 GRPHE - Groupe de Recherche en Physique des Hautes Energies
2 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
3 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
4 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
5 OCA - Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
6 UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11
7 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont
8 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
9 UTLN - Université de Toulon
10 IUF - Institut universitaire de France
11 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
12 DPhP - Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP)
13 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien

A search for magnetic monopoles using five years of data recorded with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from January 2008 to December 2012 with a total live time of 1121 days is presented. The analysis is carried out in the range β > 0.6 of magnetic monopole velocities using a strategy based on run-by-run Monte Carlo simulations. No signal above the background expectation from atmospheric muons and atmospheric neutrinos is observed, and upper limits are set on the magnetic monopole flux ranging from 5.7 × 10$^{−16}$ to 1.5 × 10$^{−18}$ cm$^{−2}$·s$^{−1}$·sr$^{−1}$.

Mots clés: Magnetic monopole; Neutrino telescope; ANTARES; Exotics; Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments); magnetic monopole: flux; neutrino: atmosphere; neutrino: detector; muon: atmosphere; numerical calculations: Monte Carlo; background; velocity; relativistic; S028F

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, M. Ardid, et al.. Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with five years of the ANTARES detector data. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017, 07, pp.054. ⟨10.1007/JHEP07(2017)054⟩. ⟨hal-01582743⟩