Conveners
MACRO Legacies
- Paolo Lipari (INFN Rome)
MACRO Legacies
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Back in 1983, when I got involved in the hunt for Grand Unified (GUT)
Magnetic Monopoles, it was possible that there were enough of them to flatten (close)
the Universe. MACRO searched for GUT monopoles at levels below the closure and
Parker Bound(s) and didn’t find any. A belief in the Inflationary Universe led scientists
like me to search for Dark Matter but there was not enough to...
ALICE experiment at CERN Large Hadron Collider, located 52 meters underground, carried out a cosmic data-taking campaign in the period 2025-2018 corresponding to 62.5 days of live time. In this work the analysis of these data is limited to multimuon events defined as events with more than four detected muons. In particular the muon multiplicity distribution (MMD) is studied in the...
In the 1950s, E. P. George measured the penetrating muon rates to gauge the overburden densities over a tunnel in Australia. Later in 1969, Luis Alvarez pioneered muon tomographic imaging by staging a spark chamber in the second pyramid of Chephren in Giza, Egypt. A quarter century after Alvarez, the MACRO collaboration measured the subterranean muon angular distribution that characterized the...
From the study of underground multimuon events to their effects in surface neutrino experiments
The MINOS and NOvA long baseline neutrino experiments have near detectors 100m underground at Fermilab and far detectors in Minnesota 700m underground (MINOS) and on the surface with minimal overburden (NOvA). They are large highly segmented scintillator detectors like MACRO for good cosmic ray tracking and timing, and have followed up on MACRO measurements of the cosmic ray seasonal...
I will describe the starting steps in MACRO to selected results of IceCube, ANTARES/KM3NeT and then to future from space
