The Sensitivity of the ANITA Experiment to Magnetic Monopoles

The ANITA (Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna) experiment is a balloon-borne antenna array designed to detect Cherenkov radiation produced by ultra-high energy neutrino interactions with the Antarctic ice. Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles that also produce Cherenkov radiation in the radio regime. The first ANITA flight in 2006-07 illustrated the extreme sensitivity of ANITA to relativistic magnetic monopoles. The second flight (2008-09) flew with much more live time. I will discuss the potential ANITA's second flight has for detecting ultra-relativistic magnetic monopoles and a method for doing so.