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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the MoEDAL Forward Trapping Detector in 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC
Yogendra N. SrivastavaJames PinfoldG. SirriMariana FrankArttu RajantieM. TentiB. ParkerI.s. ZguraS. CecchiniMatti KalliokoskiL. PasqualiniL. PatriziiStephen B. BainesD. LacarrereStanislav PospisilD. FeleaV. PopaA. ShaaJ. D. SwainClaude LeroyBenedikt BergmannJohn EllisJohn EllisJ. FloresV. TogoSpurio18 MaurizioGordon W. SemenoffN. MauriAnnarita MargiottaL. CarameteAnn M. HirtM. De MontignyJean AlexandreZ. VykydalMalcolm FairbairnOscar VivesAnthony Eric LiontiZ. SahnounH. BranzasJ. JanecekK. KinoshitaMairi SakellariadouJack A. TuszynskiBobby Samir AcharyaAkshay KatreJose BernabeuK. SliwaTom WhyntieCarmen GarcíaPhilippe MermodSarben SarkarJ.h. YoonA. KorzenevD. W. KimM. CampbellR. SolukD. FrekersR. OravaGuido Alexander WillemsJudita MamuzicShih-chang LeeMichal SukPetr BenešRoberto Ruiz De AustriNikolaos MavromatosVicente VentoM. PozzatoG.e. PăvălaşAllan WidomVasiliki A MitsouA. De Roecksubject
Magnetic monopolesProtonMagnetismPhysics beyond the Standard ModelGeneral Physics and Astronomy01 natural sciences7. Clean energyHigh Energy Physics - Experimentlaw.inventionCOLLIDERHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)STOPPING-POWERlawPhysics02 Physical SciencesLarge Hadron ColliderSTABLE MASSIVE PARTICLESPhysicsMagnetismDrell–Yan processhep-phPersistent currents3. Good healthHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyPhysical SciencesELECTROWEAK MONOPOLEParticle Physics - ExperimentGeneral PhysicsMagnetometerPhysics MultidisciplinaryMagnetic monopoleFOS: Physical sciencesNuclear track detector114 Physical sciencesNuclear physicsPhysics and Astronomy (all)Tellurium compoundsHigh energy physics Magnetism Magnetometers Highly ionizing particles Magnetic charges Magnetic monopoles Nuclear track detector Passive detection Persistent currents Proton proton collisions Trapping techniques Tellurium compounds0103 physical sciencesHigh energy physics010306 general physicsColliderIONIZING PARTICLESScience & TechnologyProton proton collisionshep-ex010308 nuclear & particles physicsMagnetometers Highly ionizing particlesMagnetic chargesTrapping techniquesPassive detectionSTATESdescription
MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of long-lived highly-ionising particles produced in high-energy LHC collisions. Its arrays of plastic nuclear-track detectors and aluminium trapping volumes provide two independent passive detection techniques. We present here the results of a first search for magnetic monopole production in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions using the trapping technique, extending a previous publication with 8 TeV data during LHC run-1. A total of 222 kg of MoEDAL trapping detector samples was exposed in the forward region and analysed by searching for induced persistent currents after passage through a superconducting magnetometer. Magnetic charges exceeding half the Dirac charge are excluded in all samples and limits are placed for the first time on the production of magnetic monopoles in 13 TeV $pp$ collisions. The search probes mass ranges previously inaccessible to collider experiments for up to five times the Dirac charge.
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| 2017-02-10 |