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Bright Needles in a Haystack [Elektronisk resurs] A Search for Magnetic Monopoles Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Burgman, Alexander, 1991- (författare)
Pérez de los Heros, Carlos (preses)
Botner, Olga (preses)
Hallgren, Allan, 1951- (preses)
Milstead, David (opponent)
Uppsala universitet Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet (utgivare)
Publicerad: Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2020
Engelska 166
Serie: Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, 1104-2516 1104-2516 ; 143
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  • E-bokAvhandling(Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2020)
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  • The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographic South Pole is designed to detect the light produced by the daughter-particles of in-ice neutrino-nucleon interactions, using one cubic kilometer of ice instrumented with more than 5000 optical sensors. Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles with non-zero magnetic charge, predicted to exist in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. The monopole mass is allowed within a wide range, depending on the production mechanism. A cosmic flux of magnetic monopoles would be accelerated by extraterrestrial magnetic fields to a broad final velocity distribution that depends on the monopole mass. The analysis presented in this thesis constitutes a search for magnetic monopoles with a speed in the range [0.750;0.995] in units of the speed of light. A monopole within this speed range would produce Cherenkov light when traversing the IceCube detector, with a smooth and elongated light signature, and a high brightness. This analysis is divided into two main steps. Step I is based on a previous IceCube analysis, developed for a cosmogenic neutrino search, with similar signal event characteristics as in this analysis. The Step I event selection reduces the acceptance of atmospheric events to lower than 0.1 events per analysis livetime. Step II is developed to reject the neutrino events that Step I inherently accepts, and employs a boosted decision tree for event classification. The (astrophysical) neutrino rate is reduced to 0.265 events per analysis livetime, corresponding to a 97.4 % rejection efficiency for events with a primary energy above 1E+5 GeV. No events were observed at final analysis level over eight years of experimental data. The resulting upper limit on the magnetic monopole flux was determined to 2.54E–19 per square centimeter per second per steradian, averaged over the covered speed region. This constitutes an improvement of around one order of magnitude over previous results. 

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Natural Sciences  (hsv)
Physical Sciences  (hsv)
Subatomic Physics  (hsv)
Naturvetenskap  (hsv)
Fysik  (hsv)
Subatomär fysik  (hsv)
Natural Sciences  (hsv)
Physical Sciences  (hsv)
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology  (hsv)
Naturvetenskap  (hsv)
Fysik  (hsv)
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi  (hsv)
Fysik med inriktning mot elementarpartikelfysik  (uu)
Physics with specialization in Elementary Particle Physics  (uu)

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magnetic monopole
IceCube
astroparticle physics
neutrino telescope
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