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H-41 - No astrophysically relevant flux of catalyzing GUT monopoles exists

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hypothesis
id
H-41
state
active
question
Does a cosmic flux of GUT monopoles catalyzing nucleon decay exist at astrophysically relevant levels?
statement
There is no cosmic flux of proton-decay-catalyzing GUT monopoles at astrophysically relevant levels: magnetic monopoles either do not exist, are far rarer than the Parker bound, or do not catalyze nucleon decay with strong-interaction-scale cross sections.
cluster
HC-9 - Existence of a catalyzing GUT-monopole flux
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origin
step-4-constructed

Constructed complement minted at step 4b: the corpus poses the catalyzing-monopole scenario but no paper states its negation, the logically needed competing answer that the null searches bear on.

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