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arXiv:2403.12322·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology

The Amaterasu Cosmic Ray as a Magnetic Monopole and Implications for Extensions of the Standard Model

Paul H. Frampton🇮🇹 · Thomas W. Kephart🇺🇸

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Abstract

The Amaterasu cosmic ray particle appears to have come from the direction of the local cosmic void. We take this as evidence that it is a magnetic monopole rather than a proton or nucleus. This in turn strongly suggests physics at high energy is described by a quiver gauge theory.

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