@article{f0b29fdccac3434db4b44194549cf522,
title = "Search for slow magnetic monopoles with the NOvA detector on the surface",
abstract = "We report a search for a magnetic monopole component of the cosmic-ray flux in a 95-day exposure of the NOvA experiment's Far Detector, a 14 kt segmented liquid scintillator detector designed primarily to observe GeV-scale electron neutrinos. No events consistent with monopoles were observed, setting an upper limit on the flux of 2×10-14 cm-2 s-1 sr-1 at 90% C.L. for monopole speed 6×10-4<β<5×10-3 and mass greater than 5×108 GeV. Because of NOvA's small overburden of 3 meters-water equivalent, this constraint covers a previously unexplored low-mass region.",
author = "{(NOvA Collaboration)} and Acero, {M. A.} and P. Adamson and L. Aliaga and T. Alion and V. Allakhverdian and N. Anfimov and A. Antoshkin and E. Arrieta-Diaz and L. Asquith and A. Aurisano and A. Back and C. Backhouse and M. Baird and N. Balashov and P. Baldi and Bambah, {B. A.} and S. Bashar and K. Bays and S. Bending and R. Bernstein and V. Bhatnagar and B. Bhuyan and J. Bian and J. Blair and Booth, {A. C.} and P. Bour and R. Bowles and C. Bromberg and N. Buchanan and A. Butkevich and S. Calvez and Carroll, {T. J.} and E. Catano-Mur and S. Childress and Choudhary, {B. C.} and Coan, {T. E.} and M. Colo and L. Corwin and L. Cremonesi and Davies, {G. S.} and Derwent, {P. F.} and P. Ding and Z. Djurcic and M. Dolce and D. Doyle and {Due{\~n}as Tonguino}, D. and P. Dung and Dukes, {E. C.} and H. Duyang and D. Whittington",
note = "Funding Information: This document was prepared by the NOvA collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RFBR, RMES, RSF, and BASIS Foundation, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; STFC, and the Royal Society, United Kingdom; and the state and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staffs of the University of Minnesota at the Ash River Laboratory and of Fermilab. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 authors.",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.103.012007",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "103",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "1",
}