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Search for single magnetic charges in the largest of fields

Collisions between lead ions have produced the largest measured magnetic field in the Universe, enabling a search for elusive exotic particles that carry an isolated magnetic charge.
  1. Sonia Kabana

    1. Sonia Kabana is at the Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile.

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Break a magnet into smaller pieces, and each part will have its own north and south pole. But in the subatomic realm, an exotic particle called a magnetic monopole can possess an isolated magnetic charge — existing as only a north pole or a south pole. Writing in Nature, Acharya et al.1 report the results of a search for these extraordinary particles using a very strong magnetic field.

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Nature 602, 39-40 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00188-2

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