Energy Loss of Monopolium in a Medium

Abstract

We study the energy loss of excited monopolium in an atomic medium. We perform a classical calculation in line with a similar calculation performed for charged particles which leads in the non relativistic limit to the Bethe-Bloch formula except for the density dependence of the medium, which we do not consider in this paper. Our result shows that for maximally deformed Rydberg states the ionization of monopolium in a light atomic medium is similar to that of light ions.