Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the MoEDAL Forward Trapping Detector in 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC

被引：58

作者：

Acharya, B. ^{[1
,2
]}

Alexandre, J. ^{[1
]}

Baines, S. ^{[3
]}

Benes, P. ^{[4
]}

Bergmann, B. ^{[4
]}

Bernabeu, J. ^{[5
]}

Branzas, H. ^{[6
]}

Campbell, M. ^{[7
]}

Caramete, L. ^{[6
]}

Cecchini, S. ^{[8
]}

de Montigny, M. ^{[9
]}

De Roeck, A. ^{[7
]}

Ellis, J. R. ^{[1
,10
]}

Fairbairn, M. ^{[1
]}

Felea, D. ^{[6
]}

Flores, J. ^{[11
]}

Frank, M. ^{[12
]}

Frekers, D. ^{[13
]}

Garcia, C. ^{[5
]}

Hirt, A. M. ^{[14
]}

Janecek, J. ^{[4
]}

Kalliokoski, M. ^{[15
]}

Katre, A. ^{[16
]}

Kim, D. -W. ^{[17
]}

Kinoshita, K. ^{[18
]}

Korzenev, A. ^{[16
]}

Lacarrere, D. H. ^{[7
]}

Lee, S. C. ^{[17
]}

Leroy, C. ^{[19
]}

Lionti, A. ^{[16
]}

Mamuzic, J. ^{[5
]}

Margiotta, A. ^{[20
,21
]}

Mauri, N. ^{[8
]}

Mavromatos, N. E. ^{[1
]}

Mermod, P. ^{[16
]}

Mitsou, V. A. ^{[5
]}

Orava, R. ^{[22
]}

Parker, B. ^{[23
]}

Pasqualini, L. ^{[20
,21
]}

Patrizii, L. ^{[8
]}

Pavalas, G. E. ^{[6
]}

Pinfold, J. L. ^{[9
]}

Popa, V. ^{[6
]}

Pozzato, M. ^{[8
]}

Pospisil, S. ^{[4
]}

Rajantie, A. ^{[24
]}

de Austri, R. Ruiz ^{[5
]}

Sahnoun, Z. ^{[8
,25
]}

Sakellariadou, M. ^{[1
]}

Sarkar, S. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London, England

[2] Abdus Salaam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Trieste, Italy

[3] Univ Manchester, Sch Phys & Astron, Manchester, Lancs, England

[4] Czech Tech Univ, IEAP, Prague, Czech Republic

[5] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, Valencia, Spain

[6] Inst Space Sci, Bucharest, Magurele, Romania

[7] CERN, Expt Phys Dept, Geneva, Switzerland

[8] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sect Bologna, Bologna, Italy

[9] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB, Canada

[10] CERN, Dept Theoret Phys, Geneva, Switzerland

[11] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, New York, NY USA

[12] Concordia Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ, Canada

[13] Univ Munster, Dept Phys, Munster, Germany

[14] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Earth Sci, Zurich, Switzerland

[15] CERN, Beams Dept, Geneva, Switzerland

[16] Univ Geneva, Sect Phys, Geneva, Switzerland

[17] Gangneung Wonju Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Kangnung, South Korea

[18] Univ Cincinnati, Dept Phys, Cincinnati, OH USA

[19] Univ Montreal, Dept Phys, Quebec City, PQ, Canada

[20] Univ Bologna, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sect Bologna, Bologna, Italy

[21] Univ Bologna, Dept Phys & Astron, Bologna, Italy

[22] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Helsinki, Finland

[23] Inst Res Sch, Canterbury, Kent, England

[24] Imperial Coll, Dept Phys, London, England

[25] Ctr Astron Astrophys & Geophys, Algiers, Algeria

[26] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[27] Nanyang Technol Univ, Dept Phys & Appl Phys, Singapore, Singapore

[28] Tufts Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Medford, MA USA

[29] Northeastern Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02115 USA

[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, CNAF, Bologna, Italy

[31] Queen Mary Univ London, London, England

[32] Konkuk Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul, South Korea

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2017年 / 118卷 / 06期

基金：

英国科学技术设施理事会; 瑞士国家科学基金会;

关键词：

STOPPING-POWER; STATES;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061801

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of long-lived highly ionizing 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 analyzed 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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