Magnetic Monopoles

1. Front Matter

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2. Overview

   1. Monopoles and Gauge Theories

      • Alfred S. Goldhaber

      Pages 1-15

   2. Testing Guts: Where do Monopoles Fit?

      • John Ellis

      Pages 17-40

   3. Experimental Status of Monopoles

      • G. Giacomelli

      Pages 41-69

3. Particle Models and Cosmology

   1. Monopole Compatibility with Cosmology

      • G. Lazarides

      Pages 71-80

   2. Reducing the Monopole Abundance

      • Alan H. Guth

      Pages 81-96

   3. Catalysis of Baryon Decay

      • Curtis G. Callan Jr.

      Pages 97-110

   4. Fractional Charge and Magnetic Monopoles

      • John Preskill

      Pages 111-126

4. Monopoles in the Universe

   1. Monopoles and Astrophysics

      • Michael S. Turner

      Pages 127-140

   2. Monopoles and the Galactic Magnetic Field

      • E. M. Purcell

      Pages 141-149

   3. The Plasma Physics of Magnetic Monopoles in the Galaxy

      • Ira Wasserman

      Pages 151-158

   4. Monopolonium

      • Christopher T. Hill

      Pages 159-173

5. Induction Experiments

   1. Status of Stanford Superconductive Monopole Detectors

      • Blas Cabrera

      Pages 175-200

   2. A Preview of Current Studies on Magnetic Monopole Detection Using Induction Coils

      • C. C. Tsuei

      Pages 201-217

   3. Acoustic Detection of Monopoles

      • B. C. Barish

      Pages 219-243

   4. Binding of Monopoles in Matter and Search in Large Quantities of Old Iron Ore

      • David B. Cline

      Pages 245-258

6. Ionization Experiments

   1. Monopole Energy Loss and Detector Excitation Mechanisms

      • S. P. Ahlen

      Pages 259-290

   2. Electronic Cosmic Ray Monopole Searches

      • Eugene C. Loh

      Pages 291-305

   3. Searches for Monopoles with Track-Etch Detectors

      • P. Buford Price

      Pages 307-324

   4. Search for Magnetic Monopoles in Proton-Antiproton Interactions at 540 GeV C.M. Energy

      • P. Musset, B. Aubert, M. Price, J. P. Vialle

      Pages 325-328

In 1269 Petrus Peregrinus observed lines of force around a lodestone and noted that they were concentrated at two points which he designated as the north and south poles of the magnet. Subsequent observation has confirmed that all magnetic objects have paired regions of' opposite polarity, that is, all magnets are dipoles. It is easy to conceive of an isolated pole, which J.J. Thomson did in 1904 when he set his famous problem of the motion of an electron in the field of a magnetic charge. In 1931 P.A.M. Dirac solved this problem quantum mechanically and showed that the existence of a single magnet pole anywhere in the universe could explain the mystery of charge quantization. By late 1981, theoretical interest in monopoles had reached the point where a meeting was organized at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste. Many mathematical properties of monopoles were discussed at length but there was only a solitary account describing experiments. This imbalance did not so much reflect the meeting's venue as it indicated the relative theoretical and experimental effort at that point.

• astrophysics
• cosmic ray
• cosmology
• electron
• energy
• fields
• magnetic field
• physics
• plasma
• theoretical physics
• universe

• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA

  Richard A. Carrigan

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

  W. Peter Trower

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