Ongoing magnetic monopole searches with IceCube
Frederik Lauber

TL;DR
This paper reviews ongoing and past searches for magnetic monopoles with IceCube, highlighting different detection methods across various velocities and summarizing the current best flux limits established by these searches.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of IceCube's magnetic monopole search strategies and results across multiple velocity regimes, including recent and ongoing efforts.
Findings
IceCube has set the world's best flux limits for magnetic monopoles in various velocity ranges.
Different light production mechanisms are used to detect monopoles at different speeds.
A summary of existing results and methods from IceCube's monopole searches is presented.
Abstract
The IceCube collaboration has instrumented a cubic kilometer of ice with photo-multipliers. While mainly developed to detect Cherenkov light, any visible light can be used to detect particles within the ice. Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles predicted by many theories that extend the Standard model of Particle Physics. They are carriers of a single elementary magnetic charge. For this particle, different light production mechanisms dominate from direct Cherenkov light at highly relativistic velocities , indirect Cherenkov light at mildly relativistic velocities , luminescence light at low relativistic velocities , as well as catalysis of proton decay at non relativistic velocities . For each of this speed ranges,…
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