Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC

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 s...

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Autores principales: Acharya, B., Alexandre, J., Baines, S., Benes, P., Bergmann, B., Bernabéu, J., Branzas, H., Campbell, M., Caramete, L., Cecchini, S., de Montigny, M., De Roeck, A., Ellis, J.R., Fairbairn, M., Felea, D., Flores, J., Frank, M., Frekers, D., Garcia, C., Hirt, A.M., Janecek, J., Kalliokoski, M., Katre, A., Kim, D.-W., Kinoshita, K., Korzenev, A., Lacarrère, D.H., Lee, S.C., Leroy, C., Lionti, A., Mamuzic, J., Margiotta, A., Mauri, N., Mavromatos, N.E., Mermod, P., Mitsou, V.A., Orava, R., Parker, B., Pasqualini, L., Patrizii, L., Păvălaş, G.E., Pinfold, J.L., Popa, V., Pozzato, M., Pospisil, S., Rajantie, A., Ruiz de Austri, R., Sahnoun, Z., Sakellariadou, M., Sarkar, S., Semenoff, G., Shaa, A., Sirri, G., Sliwa, K., Soluk, R., Spurio, M., Srivastava, Y.N., Suk, M., Swain, J., Tenti, M., Togo, V., Tuszyński, J.A., Vento, V., Vives, O., Vykydal, Z., Whyntie, T., Widom, A., Willems, G., Yoon, J.H., Zgura, I.S.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2016
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061801
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2228503
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Sumario: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 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 were 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 collisions. The search probes mass ranges previously inaccessible to collider experiments for up to five times the Dirac charge.

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