Konkuk University and Korean researchers will join hands with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to discover the Cho-Maison magnetic monopole, named after Prof. Cho Yong-min, a University Professor of Konkuk University, and Dr. Dieter Maison, an eminent physicist at the Max-Planck Institute of Germany. Prof. Cho and Dr. Maison predicted the existence of this monopole in the Weinberg-Salam model in a joint paper published in 1997.
CERN, an international organization operating the world's largest particle accelerator, began experiments last year to find the Cho-Maison magnetic monopole and other exotic particles, using a specially designed detector.
At the International Workshop on the Cho-Maison Monopole and Exotic Particles held at Konkuk University on 07 March 2013, James L. Pinfold, professor of physics at the University of Alberta, Canada, said that CERN will collaborate with Konkuk University and Korean researchers in the MoEDAL (Monopole and Exotics Detector) experiment at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider).
Prof. James L. Pinfold is the spokesman for the MoEDAL experiment, which is a joint project involving 18 universities and research institutes in 10 countries, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
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