TY  - JOUR
AU  - MoEDAL Collaboration (Acharya, B. et al
AU  - Musumeci, E.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Papavassiliou, J.
AU  - Ruiz de Austri, R.
AU  - Santra, A.
AU  - Vento, V.
AU  - Vives, O.
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022//
TI  - Search for highly-ionizing particles in pp collisions at the LHC's Run-1 using the prototype MoEDAL detector
T2  - Eur. Phys. J. C
JO  - European Physical Journal C
SP  - 694 - 16pp
VL  - 82
IS  - 8
PB  - Springer
AB  - A search for highly electrically charged objects (HECOs) and magnetic monopoles is presented using 2.2 fb(-1) of p – p collision data taken at a centre of mass energy (E-CM) of 8 TeV by the MoEDAL detector during LHC's Run-1. The data were collected using MoEDAL's prototype Nuclear Track Detectord array and the Trapping Detector array. The results are interpreted in terms of Drell-Yan pair production of stable HECO and monopole pairs with three spin hypotheses (0, 1/2 and 1). The search provides constraints on the direct production of magnetic monopoles carrying one to four Dirac magnetic charges and with mass limits ranging from 590 GeV/c(2) to 1 TeV/c(2). Additionally, mass limits are placed on HECOs with charge in the range 10e to 180e, where e is the charge of an electron, for masses between 30 GeV/c(2) and 1 TeV/c(2).
SN  - 1434-6044
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05806
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10608-2
DO  - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10608-2
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000838674800001
ID  - MoEDALCollaborationAcharya_etal2022
ER  -