The macro detector at the Gran Sasso Laboratory

The MACRO detector is presently under construction, its installation at Gran Sasso being planned to start in September 1987. It is a large area detector, the acceptance for isotropic particle fluxes being around 10 000 m2 sr, designed to search for rare phenomena in the cosmic radiation. It makes use of three detection techniques: liquid scintillator counters, plastic streamer tubes, and track-etch. It will perform a search for GUT monopoles (or any supermassive charged penetrating particle), a survey of cosmic point sources of HE gammas and neutrinos, a systematic study of the penetrating cosmic ray muons, and will be sensitive to neutrino bursts from gravitational stellar collapses in the Galaxy.

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FIRST RESULTS FROM A SEA LEVEL SEARCH FOR SUPERMASSIVE MAGNETIC MONOPOLES

G. Tarle
(
- UC, Berkeley and
- Michigan U.
)
,
Tony M. Liss
(
- UC, Berkeley and
- Michigan U.
)
,
S.P. Ahlen
(
- Indiana U.
)

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 52 (1984) 90-93,
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DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.90

[2]

submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

S.P. Ahlen

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Energy Loss of Slowly Moving Magnetic Monopoles in Matter

S.D. Drell
(
- SLAC
)
,
Norman M. Kroll
(
- SLAC and
- UC, San Diego
)
,
Mark Theodore Mueller
(
- Stanford U., ITP
)
,
Stephen J. Parke
(
- SLAC
)
,
Malvin H. Ruderman
(
- Columbia U.
)

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 50 (1983) 644-648
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.644

[4]

Limit on Flux of Supermassive Monopoles and Charged Relic Particles Using Plastic Track Detectors

P.B. Price
(
- CERN
)

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DOI:
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See HE7.2-22 on the Proc. of the 20th ICRC, Moscow, USSR , to be published