Dark monopoles

TL;DR

This paper proposes a dark sector extension of QED with a two-photon theory, introducing dark monopoles and analyzing their potential experimental signatures through mixing interactions that could enable their detection.

Contribution

It introduces a novel two-photon dark sector model with monopoles and predicts experimental signatures for their detection, expanding the theoretical framework of monopole research.

Findings

Dark monopoles can mix with ordinary particles, leading to potential detection signals.

The model predicts specific indirect and direct detection signatures.

Dark sector interactions could explain the lack of monopole observations so far.

Abstract

Monopoles have been a subject of much theoretical and experimental research since they were proposed to symmetrize Maxwell's equations. However, no experimental signature of their existence has been detected. Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain this lack of success. In here we generalize QED to a two photon theory where the extraordinary photon and the monopole belong to the dark sector, and the ordinary photon and the electron to the non-dark sector. A mixing interaction transforms both electron and monopole into dyons generating experimental consequences for indirect and direct monopole detection which we analyze.