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Magnetic Monopoles

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Richard A. Carrigan

    1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA

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  2. W. Peter Trower

    1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 102)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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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

  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
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA

    Richard A. Carrigan

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

    W. Peter Trower

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Magnetic Monopoles

  • Editors: Richard A. Carrigan, W. Peter Trower

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series B:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7370-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41399-5Due: 01 August 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-7372-2Published: 12 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-7370-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1221

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 337

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Magnetism, Magnetic Materials

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