SLIM is a large area experiment (440 m(2)) installed at the Chacaltaya cosmic ray laboratory since 200 1, and about 100 m2 at Koksil, Himalaya, since 2003. It is devoted to the search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles (10(7)-10(13) GeV/c(2)) and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation using stacks of CR-39 and Makrofol nuclear track detectors. In four years of operation it will reach a sensitivity to a flux of about 10(-15) cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1). We present the results of the calibration of CR-39 and Makrofol and the analysis of a first sample of the exposed detector. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles and nuclearites with the SLIM experiment
SAAVEDRA, Oscar;
2005-01-01
Abstract
SLIM is a large area experiment (440 m(2)) installed at the Chacaltaya cosmic ray laboratory since 200 1, and about 100 m2 at Koksil, Himalaya, since 2003. It is devoted to the search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles (10(7)-10(13) GeV/c(2)) and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation using stacks of CR-39 and Makrofol nuclear track detectors. In four years of operation it will reach a sensitivity to a flux of about 10(-15) cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1). We present the results of the calibration of CR-39 and Makrofol and the analysis of a first sample of the exposed detector. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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