Magnetic monopole searches in the cosmic radiation
Abstract
Description
There has been a big effort in the past twenty years with at least a couple of generations of experiments which searched for supermassive GUT magnetic monopoles in the cosmic radiation.
Here a short review of these searches is given, together with a brief description of the theoretical framework and of the detection techniques.
Talk given at the Vulcano workshop on "Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics", May 2002
Talk given at the Vulcano workshop on "Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics", May 2002