Possibility of a modification of life time of radioactive elements by magnetic monopoles

The existence of magnetic charges has appeal from the theoretical point of view: it explains the quantization of the electric charge and symmetrize Maxwell’s equation. Therefore, from 1931, when the famous Dirac paper [1] was published, searches for magnetic monopoles were carried out at every new generation of accelerators, but all those attempts were futile. Now it is generally accepted that magnetic monopoles, if they exist, should be very heavy, with mass ≥ 500–1000 GeV. Nevertheless, an interesting possibility of existence of relatively light magnetic charges follows from G. Lochak’s magnetic monopole concept [2]–[4]. Indeed, all accelerator magnetic monopole searches are based on the existence of the vertex γ → M+M , suggested by analogy with γ → e+ e. The most straightforward way to prevent the monopole– antimonopole creation in the accelerator experiments is to permit the following violation of C invariance in the electromagnetic interactions: it is possible to assume that antimonopole, M , corresponding to the solution of the Dirac equation with negative energy, does not take part in the electromagnetic interactions (in contrast to e). This means that the vertex γ → M + M does not exist, in spite of the existence of the vertex M → M + γ. There is a close analogy of such a violation of C invariance with P violation in the weak interaction. In the latter case νR and νL do not take part in the V − A interaction (are ”sterile” particles). The only difference refers to the question of the existence of the particles. Since any interactions of νR and νL are unknown, the very existence of these particles is still doubtful, whereas the existence of negative energy particles follows from the requirement of the possibility of spatial localization of the