%0 Journal Article
%T Search for highly-ionizing particles in pp collisions at the LHC's Run-1 using the prototype MoEDAL detector
%A MoEDAL Collaboration (Acharya, B. et al
%A Musumeci, E.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Papavassiliou, J.
%A Ruiz de Austri, R.
%A Santra, A.
%A Vento, V.
%A Vives, O.
%J European Physical Journal C
%D 2022
%V 82
%N 8
%I Springer
%@ 1434-6044
%G English
%F MoEDALCollaborationAcharya_etal2022
%O WOS:000838674800001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5326), last updated on Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:38:10 +0000
%X 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).
%R 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10608-2
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05806
%U https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10608-2
%P 694 - 16pp