Can grand unification monopoles be detected with plastic scintillators?
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 27 (3) , 688-691
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.27.688
Abstract
By drawing upon results from work dealing with the interactions of slow protons with matter, we estimate the light yield of grand unification monopoles from organic scintillators. It is shown that monopoles having velocities can be observed.
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