Have magnetic monopoles been detected?

[waht]

http://www.physorg.com/news171209923.html

Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre Berlin, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, have for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real material. They publish this result in the journal Science within the Science Express website on Sept. 3

Jonathan Morris, Alan Tennant and colleagues (HZB) undertook a neutron scattering experiment at the Berlin research reactor. The material under investigation was a single crystal of Dysprosium Titanate. This material crystallises in a quite remarkable geometry, the so called pyrochlore-lattice. With the help of neutron scattering Morris and Tennant show that the magnetic moments inside the material had reorganised into so-called „Spin-Spaghetti". This name comes from the ordering of the dipoles themselves, such that a network of contorted tubes (Strings) develops, through which magnetic flux is transported. These can be made visible by their interaction with the neutrons which themselves carry a magnetic moment. Thus the neutrons scatter as a reciprocal representation of the Strings.

During the neutron scattering measurements a magnetic field was applied to the crystal by the researchers. With this field they could influence the symmetry and orientation of the strings. Thereby it was possible to reduce the density of the string networks and promote the monopole dissociation. As a result, at temperatures from 0.6 to 2 Kelvin, the strings are visible and have magnetic monopoles at their ends.

Is this real? Have the researchers discovered the actual magnetic monopoles or something that because like the monopoles?

 

[jtbell]

See this thread, starting at post #8: (most recent post was yesterday morning)

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=332155

 

[Entropia]

This is a significant and exciting discovery in the field of physics. The observation of magnetic monopoles, which are particles with only one magnetic pole, has been theorized for many years but has never been observed in a real material until now. The researchers have provided strong evidence for the existence of these elusive particles through their neutron scattering experiments on Dysprosium Titanate.

Their findings not only confirm the existence of these monopoles, but also shed light on how they emerge and interact in a real material. This has important implications for our understanding of fundamental physics and could potentially lead to new technologies in the future.

It is important to note that while the researchers have observed strings with monopoles at their ends, further research and confirmation is needed to fully confirm the existence of these particles. Nonetheless, this is a significant step forward in the search for magnetic monopoles and opens up new avenues for exploration in the field.