Search for magnetic monopoles with ten years of the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Albert, A.; Alves, S.; Andre, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; Ardid, M.; Ardid, S.; Aubert, J. -J.; Aublin, J.; Baret, B.; Basa, S.; Belhorma, B.; Bendahman, M.; Benfenati, F.; Bertin, V.; Biagi, S.; Bissinger, M.; Boumaaza, J.; Bouta, M.; Bouwhuis, M. C.; Branzas, H.; Bruijn, R.; Brunner, J.; Busto, J.; Caiffi, B.; Calvo, D.; Capone, A.; Caramete, L.; Carr, J.; Carretero, V.; Celli, S.; Chabab, M.; Chau, T. N.; Cherkaoui El Moursli, R.; Chiarusi, T.; Circella, M.; Coleiro, A.; Coniglione, R.; Coyle, P.; Creusot, A.; Diaz, A. F.; de Wasseige, G.; Distefano, C.; Di Palma, I.; Domi, A.; Donzaud, C.; Dornic, D.; Drouhin, D.; Eberl, T.; van Eeden, T.; van Eijk, D.; El Khayati, N.; Enzenhofer, A.; Fermani, P.; Ferrara, G.; Filippini, F.; Fusco, L.; Garcia, J.; Gatelet, Y.; Gay, P.; Glotin, H.; Gozzini, R.; Gracia Ruiz, R.; Graf, K.; Guidi, C.; Hallmann, S.; van Haren, H.; Heijboer, A. J.; Hello, Y.; Hernandez-Rey, J. J.; Hossl, J.; Hofestadt, J.; Huang, F.; Illuminati, G.; James, C. W.; Jisse-Jung, B.; de Jong, M.; de Jong, P.; Kadler, M.; Kalekin, O.; Katz, U.; Khan-Chowdhury, N. R.; Kouchner, A.; Kreykenbohm, I.; Kulikovskiy, V.; Lahmann, R.; Le Breton, R.; Lestum, S.; Lefevre, D.; Leonora, E.; Levi, G.; Lincetto, M.; Lopez-Coto, D.; Loucatos, S.; Maderer, L.; Manczak, J.; Marcelin, M.; Margiotta, A.; Marinelli, A.; Martinez-Mora, J. A.; Martino, B.; Melis, K.; Migliozzi, P.; Moussa, A.; Muller, R.; Nauta, L.; Navas, S.; Nezri, E.; O Fearraigh, B.; Paun, A.; Pavalas, G. E.; Pellegrino, C.; Perrin-Terrin, M.; Pestel, V.; Piattelli, P.; Pieterse, C.; Poire, C.; Popa, V.; Pradier, T.; Randazzo, N.; Real, D.; Reck, S.; Riccobene, G.; Romanov, A.; Sanchez-Losa, A.; Salesa Greus, F.; Samtleben, D. F. E.; Sanguineti, M.; Sapienza, P.; Schnabel, J.; Schumann, J.; Schussler, F.; Seneca, J.; Spurio, M.; Stolarczyk, T.; Taiuti, M.; Tayalati, Y.; Tingay, S. J.; Vallage, B.; Van Elewyck, V.; Versari, F.; Viola, S.; Vivolo, D.; Wilms, J.; Zavatarelli, S.; Zegarelli, A.; Zornoza, J. D.; Zuniga, J.

doi:10.1016/j.jheap.2022.03.001

This work presents a new search for magnetic monopoles using data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope over a period of 10 years (January 2008 to December 2017). Compared to previous ANTARES searches, this analysis uses a run-by-run simulation strategy, with a larger exposure as well as a new simulation of magnetic monopoles taking into account the Kasama, Yang and Goldhaber model for their interaction cross-section with matter. No signal compatible with the passage of relativistic magnetic monopoles is observed, and upper limits on the flux of magnetic monopoles with β=v/c≥0.55, are presented. For ultra-relativistic magnetic monopoles the flux limit is ∼7×10−18 cm−2s−1sr−1.