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Magnetic monopoles: from Dirac to the Large Hadron Collider
Abstract
One of the basic properties of magnetism is that a magnet has always two poles, north and south, which cannot be separated into isolated poles, the magnetic monopoles. There are strong theoretical arguments in favour of monopoles' existence, but in spite of extensive searches they are yet to be found. In this review article, after highlighting briefly the theoretical foundations of monopoles, a historical overview of experimental endeavours to observe them is given, with emphasis on the state-of-the-art of searches in cosmic and collider experiments and in particular the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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BibTeX
@misc{mitsou2026magnetic,
title = {{Magnetic monopoles: from Dirac to the Large Hadron Collider}},
author = {Vasiliki A. Mitsou},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.02869},
eprint = {2605.02869},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02869},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Magnetic monopoles: from Dirac to the Large Hadron Collider
AU - Vasiliki A. Mitsou
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/11
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.02869
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02869
AB - One of the basic properties of magnetism is that a magnet has always two poles, north and south, which cannot be separated into isolated poles, the magnetic monopoles. There are strong theoretical arguments in favour of monopoles' existence, but in spite of extensive searches they are yet to be found. In this review article, after highlighting briefly the theoretical foundations of monopoles, a historical overview of experimental endeavours to observe them is given, with emphasis on the state-of-the-art of searches in cosmic and collider experiments and in particular the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
ER -