What is the Current Understanding of Monopoles in Physics?

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Homework Statement

I am looking for reliable sources with decent information on monopoles, this is a freshman research paper. I am just looking for books websites and any useful information on the topic. thank you

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The Attempt at a Solution

I've gone to the library and surfed the internet but have found minimal reliable information.

 

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As a very first introduction, the Wikipedia article seems to be pretty good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopoles

The classical theoretical papers are

P. A. M. Dirac, Quantised Singularities in the Electromagnetic Field, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 133, 60 (1931)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/95639

P. A. M. Dirac, Theory of Magnetic Poles, Phys. Rev. 74, 817 (1948)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v74/i7/p817

T. T. Wu and C. N. Yang, Concept of nonintegrable phase factors and global formulation of gauge fields, Phys. Rev. D 12, 3845 (1975), http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v12/i12/p3845

Some experimental papers:

R. L. Fleischer et al., Search for Magnetic Monopoles in Deep Ocean Deposits, Phys. Rev. 184, 3845 (1969)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v184/i5/p1393

Thron et al., Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the Soudan 2 Detector, Phys. Rev. D 46, 4846 (1992)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v46/p4846

 

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Thank you very much this will be very helpful especially the experimental papers.