Ion scattering on monopoles

Abstract

Magnetic monopoles have been a subject of interest since Dirac established the relation between the existence of monopoles and charge quantization. The Dirac quantization condition bestows the monopole with a huge magnetic charge. We study the scattering of charged ions by monopoles and use backscattering techniques to devise a method to detect monopoles bound in matter.

Comments: 4pages, 4 figures, work presented in the 7th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2018)