Results and future plans of the MoEDAL experiment

Mitsou, V. A.

doi:10.22323/1.398.0704

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“…The production cross section at the LHC energies for photon fusion is much higher than the DY [55]. Therefore MoEDAL, being the only experiment considering it, set the most stringent limits on monopoles overall [59].…”

Section: Pos(discrete2020-2021)017mentioning

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MoEDAL, MAPP and future endeavours

Mitsou¹

2022

Proceedings of 7th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, DISCRETE 2020-2021 — PoS(DISCRETE2020-2021)

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The unprecedented collision energy of the LHC has opened up a new discovery frontier, however, without any signs of new physics in sight. The first LHC dedicated search experiment, MoEDAL, started data taking for Run 2. MoEDAL is designed to search highly ionising particle avatars of new physics using 𝑝 𝑝 and heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. The planned upgrade for MoEDAL at Run 3 of the LHC -the MAPP detector (MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles) -will extend MoEDAL's physics reach to include feebly interacting, long-lived messengers of physics beyond the Standard Model. This will allow the experiment to explore a number of models of new physics, including dark sector models, in a complementary way to that of conventional LHC collider experiment detectors. Furthermore, a possible astroparticle extension to MoEDAL, called Cosmic-MoEDAL, will allow the search for magnetic monopoles to be continued from the TeV scale to the GUT scale. This paper focuses on recent results and plans for the LHC Run 3.

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MoEDAL, MAPP and future endeavours

Mitsou¹

2022

Proceedings of 7th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, DISCRETE 2020-2021 — PoS(DISCRETE2020-2021)

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“…The Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC (MoEDAL) [29,30] is a unique and mostly passive experiment located at the Intersection Point 8 (IP8), in the vicinity of the VErtex LOcator (VELO), in the LHCb detector cavern of the LHC. MoEDAL comprises three main sub-detector systems: nuclear track detectors, magnetic monopole trappers, and TimePix, each following a different principle of operation.…”

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Discovery prospects for long-lived multiply charged particles at the LHC

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In this work, we aim to provide a comprehensive and largely model independent investigation on prospects to detect long-lived multiply charged particles at the LHC. We consider particles with spin 0 and $$\frac{1}{2}$$ 1 2 , with electric charges in range $$1 \le |Q/e| \le 8$$ 1 ≤ | Q / e | ≤ 8 , which are singlet or triplet under $$SU(3)_C$$ S U ( 3 ) C . Such particles might be produced as particle-antiparticle pairs and propagate through detectors, or form a positronium (quarkonium)-like bound state. We consider both possibilities and estimate lower mass bounds on new particles, that can be provided by ATLAS, CMS and MoEDAL experiments at the end of Run 3 and HL-LHC data taking periods. We find out that the sensitivities of ATLAS and CMS are generally stronger than those of MoEDAL at Run 3, while they may be competitive at HL-LHC for $$3 \lesssim |Q/e| \lesssim 7$$ 3 ≲ | Q / e | ≲ 7 for all types of long-lived particles we consider.

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“…The production cross section at the LHC energies for photon fusion is much higher than the DY [61]. Therefore MoEDAL, being the only experiment considering it, set the most stringent limits on monopoles overall [69]. -independent coupling β Drell-Yan production with Figure 3.…”

Section: Previous Searches For Monopoles and Dyons In Moedalmentioning

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First search for magnetic monopoles through the Schwinger mechanism

Mitsou

2022

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical fundamental particles predicted in several theories beyond the standard model, however they have never been experimentally detected. The Schwinger mechanism predicts that an extremely strong magnetic field would produce isolated magnetic charges, if they exist. Looking for the existence of magnetic monopoles via the Schwinger mechanism had not been attempted before, but it is advantageous, owing to the possibility of calculating its rate through semi-classical techniques without perturbation theory. This paper focuses on the first search for magnetic monopoles produced by the Schwinger mechanism in heavy-ion collisions. It was carried out by the MoEDAL experiment, whose trapping detectors were exposed to 0.235 nb−1 of Pb-Pb collisions with 5.02 TeV energy per collision at the LHC, that provided the strongest known magnetic fields in the universe. A superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer scanned these detectors for the presence of magnetic charge. Magnetic monopoles with 1, 2 and 3 Dirac charges and masses up to 75 GeV were excluded by the analysis. This analysis, which has been published in the journal Nature, provided a lower mass limit for finite-size magnetic monopoles from a collider search and greatly extended previous mass bounds.

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Results and future plans of the MoEDAL experiment

Cited by 6 publications

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MoEDAL, MAPP and future endeavours

MoEDAL, MAPP and future endeavours

Discovery prospects for long-lived multiply charged particles at the LHC

First search for magnetic monopoles through the Schwinger mechanism

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