In the article by Arttu Rajantie on the search for magnetic monopoles, I noticed there was no mention of other monopole searches that had negative results. The most significant of those is the work by Luis Alvarez and his co-authors.1,2,3 The references to Rajantie’s figure 4, the plot of monopole flux versus monopole mass, cite experiments by Alvarez and his colleagues. A description of the implications of their work would have been helpful.
References
1.
P. H.
Eberhard
, R. R.
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, L. W.
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, R. D.
Watt
, Phys. Rev. D
4
, 3260
(1971
). 2.
R. R.
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Alvarez
, R. D.
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L. W.
Alvarez
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Arttu
Rajantie
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69
(10
), 40
(2016
). © 2017 American Institute of Physics.
2017
American Institute of Physics
