Search for a heavy magnetic monopole at the Fermilab Tevatron and CERN LHC
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If a heavy Dirac monopole exists, the light to light scattering below the monopole production threshold is enhanced due to the strong coupling of monopoles to photons. This effect could be observable in the collision of virtual photons at proton colliders. At the Tevatron it will be seen as pair production of photons with energies 200--400 GeV and roughly compensated transverse momenta 100--400 GeV/c. This effect could be seen at monopole masses about 1--2.5 TeV at the upgraded Tevatron and 7.4--19 TeV at LHC depending on monopole spin.
11 pages, 2 figures, Latex(Revtex), small changes in estimates of Sect.III and in Fig.2 due to corrected form factor scale of eq. (19), title made more precise
11 pages, 2 figures, Latex(Revtex), small changes in estimates of Sect.III and in Fig.2 due to corrected form factor scale of eq. (19), title made more precise