Magnetic Monopoles and Free Fractionally Charged States at Accelerators and in Cosmic Rays

Understand

Unified theories of strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions which have electric charge quantization predict the existence of topologically stable magnetic monopoles.

• Intermediate scale monopoles are comparable with detection energies of cosmic ray monopoles at IceCube and other cosmic ray experiments.
• Magnetic monopoles in some models can be significantly lighter and carry two, three or possibly even higher quanta of the Dirac magnetic charge.
• They could be light enough for their effects to be detected at the LHC either directly or indirectly.