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Searches for magnetic monopoles

Nature Reviews Physics volume 4, page 84 (2022)Cite this article

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Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles with an isolated south or north pole: the magnetic equivalent of the elementary electric charge. They are predicted by different beyond-standard-model theories and also appear in cosmology and string theory. Two recent studies look for magnetic monopoles in very different, and rather exotic, places.

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Georgescu, I. Searches for magnetic monopoles. Nat Rev Phys 4, 84 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-022-00428-4

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