@article{1b3d10eca9dc40ecade522b14f0cfc62,
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 A. Habig and K. Heller and Marshak, {M. L.} and A. Mislivec and G. Pawloski and M. Strait and D. Torbunov",
note = "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",
}