Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with Eight Years of IceCube Data

R Abbasi¹, M Ackermann², J Adams³, J A Aguilar⁴, M Ahlers⁵, M Ahrens⁶, C Alispach⁷, A A Alves⁸, N M Amin⁹, R An¹⁰, K Andeen¹¹, T Anderson¹², G Anton¹³, C Argüelles¹⁰, Y Ashida¹⁴, S Axani¹⁵, X Bai¹⁶, A Balagopal V¹⁴, A Barbano⁷, S W Barwick¹⁷, B Bastian², V Basu¹⁴, S Baur⁴, R Bay¹⁸, J J Beatty^{19

20}, K-H Becker²¹, J Becker Tjus²², C Bellenghi²³, S BenZvi²⁴, D Berley²⁵, E Bernardini², D Z Besson²⁶, G Binder^{18

27}, D Bindig²¹, E Blaufuss²⁵, S Blot², M Boddenberg²⁸, F Bontempo⁸, J Borowka²⁸, S Böser²⁹, O Botner³⁰, J Böttcher²⁸, E Bourbeau⁵, F Bradascio², J Braun¹⁴, S Bron⁷, J Brostean-Kaiser², S Browne³¹, A Burgman³⁰, R T Burley³², R S Busse³³, M A Campana³⁴, E G Carnie-Bronca³², C Chen³⁵, Z Chen³⁶, D Chirkin¹⁴, K Choi³⁷, B A Clark³⁸, K Clark³⁹, L Classen³³, A Coleman⁹, G H Collin¹⁵, J M Conrad¹⁵, P Coppin⁴⁰, P Correa⁴⁰, D F Cowen^{41

12}, R Cross²⁴, C Dappen²⁸, P Dave³⁵, C De Clercq⁴⁰, J J DeLaunay⁴², H Dembinski⁹, K Deoskar⁶, A Desai¹⁴, P Desiati¹⁴, K D de Vries⁴⁰, G de Wasseige⁴⁰, M de With⁴³, T DeYoung³⁸, S Dharani²⁸, A Diaz¹⁵, J C Díaz-Vélez¹⁴, M Dittmer³³, H Dujmovic⁸, M Dunkman¹², M A DuVernois¹⁴, E Dvorak¹⁶, T Ehrhardt²⁹, P Eller²³, R Engel^{8

31}, H Erpenbeck²⁸, J Evans²⁵, P A Evenson⁹, K L Fan²⁵, A R Fazely⁴⁴, N Feigl⁴³, S Fiedlschuster¹³, A T Fienberg¹², K Filimonov¹⁸, C Finley⁶, L Fischer², D Fox⁴¹, A Franckowiak^{22

2}, E Friedman²⁵, A Fritz²⁹, P Fürst²⁸, T K Gaisser⁹, J Gallagher⁴⁵, E Ganster²⁸, A Garcia¹⁰, S Garrappa², L Gerhardt²⁷, A Ghadimi⁴², C Glaser³⁰, T Glauch²³, T Glüsenkamp¹³, J G Gonzalez⁹, S Goswami⁴², D Grant³⁸, T Grégoire¹², S Griswold²⁴, M Gündüz²², C Günther²⁸, C Haack²³, A Hallgren³⁰, R Halliday³⁸, L Halve²⁸, F Halzen¹⁴, M Ha Minh²³, K Hanson¹⁴, J Hardin¹⁴, A A Harnisch³⁸, A Haungs⁸, S Hauser²⁸, D Hebecker⁴³, K Helbing²¹, F Henningsen²³, E C Hettinger³⁸, S Hickford²¹, J Hignight⁴⁶, C Hill⁴⁷, G C Hill³², K D Hoffman²⁵, R Hoffmann²¹, T Hoinka⁴⁸, B Hokanson-Fasig¹⁴, K Hoshina¹⁴, F Huang¹², M Huber²³, T Huber⁸, K Hultqvist⁶, M Hünnefeld⁴⁸, R Hussain¹⁴, S In³⁷, N Iovine⁴, A Ishihara⁴⁷, M Jansson⁶, G S Japaridze⁴⁹, M Jeong³⁷, B J P Jones⁵⁰, D Kang⁸, W Kang³⁷, X Kang³⁴, A Kappes³³, D Kappesser²⁹, T Karg², M Karl²³, A Karle¹⁴, U Katz¹³, M Kauer¹⁴, M Kellermann²⁸, J L Kelley¹⁴, A Kheirandish¹², K Kin⁴⁷, T Kintscher², J Kiryluk³⁶, S R Klein^{18

27}, R Koirala⁹, H Kolanoski⁴³, T Kontrimas²³, L Köpke²⁹, C Kopper³⁸, S Kopper⁴², D J Koskinen⁵, P Koundal⁸, M Kovacevich³⁴, M Kowalski^{43

2}, T Kozynets⁵, E Kun²², N Kurahashi³⁴, N Lad², C Lagunas Gualda², J L Lanfranchi¹², M J Larson²⁵, F Lauber²¹, J P Lazar^{10

14}, J W Lee³⁷, K Leonard¹⁴, A Leszczyńska³¹, Y Li¹², M Lincetto²², Q R Liu¹⁴, M Liubarska⁴⁶, E Lohfink²⁹, C J Lozano Mariscal³³, L Lu¹⁴, F Lucarelli⁷, A Ludwig^{38

51}, W Luszczak¹⁴, Y Lyu^{18

27}, W Y Ma², J Madsen¹⁴, K B M Mahn³⁸, Y Makino¹⁴, S Mancina¹⁴, I C Mariş⁴, R Maruyama⁵², K Mase⁴⁷, T McElroy⁴⁶, F McNally⁵³, J V Mead⁵, K Meagher¹⁴, S Mechbal², A Medina²⁰, M Meier⁴⁷, S Meighen-Berger²³, J Micallef³⁸, D Mockler⁴, T Montaruli⁷, R W Moore⁴⁶, R Morse¹⁴, M Moulai¹⁵, R Naab², R Nagai⁴⁷, U Naumann²¹, J Necker², L V Nguyễn³⁸, H Niederhausen²³, M U Nisa³⁸, S C Nowicki³⁸, A Obertacke Pollmann²¹, M Oehler⁸, B Oeyen⁵⁴, A Olivas²⁵, E O'Sullivan³⁰, H Pandya⁹, D V Pankova¹², N Park³⁹, G K Parker⁵⁰, E N Paudel⁹, L Paul¹¹, C Pérez de Los Heros³⁰, L Peters²⁸, J Peterson¹⁴, S Philippen²⁸, D Pieloth⁴⁸, S Pieper²¹, M Pittermann³¹, A Pizzuto¹⁴, M Plum¹¹, Y Popovych²⁹, A Porcelli⁵⁴, M Prado Rodriguez¹⁴, P B Price¹⁸, B Pries³⁸, G T Przybylski²⁷, C Raab⁴, A Raissi³, M Rameez⁵, K Rawlins⁵⁵, I C Rea²³, A Rehman⁹, P Reichherzer²², R Reimann²⁸, G Renzi⁴, E Resconi²³, S Reusch², W Rhode⁴⁸, M Richman³⁴, B Riedel¹⁴, E J Roberts³², S Robertson^{18

27}, G Roellinghoff³⁷, M Rongen²⁹, C Rott^{56

37}, T Ruhe⁴⁸, D Ryckbosch⁵⁴, D Rysewyk Cantu³⁸, I Safa^{10

14}, J Saffer³¹, S E Sanchez Herrera³⁸, A Sandrock⁴⁸, J Sandroos²⁹, M Santander⁴², S Sarkar⁵⁷, S Sarkar⁴⁶, K Satalecka², M Scharf²⁸, M Schaufel²⁸, H Schieler⁸, S Schindler¹³, P Schlunder⁴⁸, T Schmidt²⁵, A Schneider¹⁴, J Schneider¹³, F G Schröder^{8

9}, L Schumacher²³, G Schwefer²⁸, S Sclafani³⁴, D Seckel⁹, S Seunarine⁵⁸, A Sharma³⁰, S Shefali³¹, M Silva¹⁴, B Skrzypek¹⁰, B Smithers⁵⁰, R Snihur¹⁴, J Soedingrekso⁴⁸, D Soldin⁹, C Spannfellner²³, G M Spiczak⁵⁸, C Spiering², J Stachurska², M Stamatikos²⁰, T Stanev⁹, R Stein², J Stettner²⁸, A Steuer²⁹, T Stezelberger²⁷, T Stürwald²¹, T Stuttard⁵, G W Sullivan²⁵, I Taboada³⁵, F Tenholt²², S Ter-Antonyan⁴⁴, S Tilav⁹, F Tischbein²⁸, K Tollefson³⁸, L Tomankova²², C Tönnis⁵⁹, S Toscano⁴, D Tosi¹⁴, A Trettin², M Tselengidou¹³, C F Tung³⁵, A Turcati²³, R Turcotte⁸, C F Turley¹², J P Twagirayezu³⁸, B Ty¹⁴, M A Unland Elorrieta³³, N Valtonen-Mattila³⁰, J Vandenbroucke¹⁴, N van Eijndhoven⁴⁰, D Vannerom¹⁵, J van Santen², S Verpoest⁵⁴, C Walck⁶, T B Watson⁵⁰, C Weaver³⁸, P Weigel¹⁵, A Weindl⁸, M J Weiss¹², J Weldert²⁹, C Wendt¹⁴, J Werthebach⁴⁸, M Weyrauch³¹, N Whitehorn^{38

51}, C H Wiebusch²⁸, D R Williams⁴², M Wolf²³, K Woschnagg¹⁸, G Wrede¹³, J Wulff²², X W Xu⁴⁴, J P Yanez⁴⁶, S Yoshida⁴⁷, S Yu³⁸, T Yuan¹⁴, Z Zhang³⁶; IceCube Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA.
² DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
⁴ Science Faculty CP230, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶ Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland.
⁸ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
⁹ Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹¹ Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201, USA.
¹² Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
¹³ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
¹⁴ Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹⁶ Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²⁰ Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²¹ Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
²² Fakultät für Physik and Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
²³ Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
²⁵ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
²⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
²⁷ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
²⁸ III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany.
²⁹ Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
³⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden.
³¹ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
³² Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
³³ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
³⁴ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
³⁵ School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
³⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
³⁷ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.
³⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
³⁹ Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
⁴⁰ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁴¹ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
⁴² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
⁴³ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada.
⁴⁷ Department of Physics and Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
⁴⁹ CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Science Hall Room 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁵¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
⁵² Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁵³ Department of Physics, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia 31207-0001, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
⁵⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
⁵⁷ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
⁵⁸ Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA.
⁵⁹ Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.

PMID: 35179913
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.051101

Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with Eight Years of IceCube Data

R Abbasi et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2022.

. 2022 Feb 4;128(5):051101.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.051101.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA.
² DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
⁴ Science Faculty CP230, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶ Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland.
⁸ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
⁹ Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹¹ Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201, USA.
¹² Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
¹³ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany.
¹⁴ Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹⁶ Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²⁰ Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
²¹ Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
²² Fakultät für Physik and Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
²³ Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
²⁵ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
²⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
²⁷ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
²⁸ III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany.
²⁹ Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
³⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden.
³¹ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
³² Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
³³ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany.
³⁴ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
³⁵ School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
³⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
³⁷ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.
³⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
³⁹ Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
⁴⁰ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁴¹ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
⁴² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.
⁴³ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁴⁶ Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada.
⁴⁷ Department of Physics and Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany.
⁴⁹ CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Science Hall Room 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁵¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
⁵² Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁵³ Department of Physics, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia 31207-0001, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.
⁵⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
⁵⁷ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
⁵⁸ Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, USA.
⁵⁹ Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea.

PMID: 35179913
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.051101

Abstract

We present an all-sky 90% confidence level upper limit on the cosmic flux of relativistic magnetic monopoles using 2886 days of IceCube data. The analysis was optimized for monopole speeds between 0.750c and 0.995c, without any explicit restriction on the monopole mass. We constrain the flux of relativistic cosmic magnetic monopoles to a level below 2.0×10^{-19} cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1} over the majority of the targeted speed range. This result constitutes the most strict upper limit to date for magnetic monopoles with β≳0.8 and up to β∼0.995 and fills the gap between existing limits on the cosmic flux of nonrelativistic and ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles.

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