PT Journal
AU MoEDAL Collaboration (Acharya, Bea
   Musumeci, E
   Mitsou, VA
   Papavassiliou, J
   Ruiz de Austri, R
   Santra, A
   Vento, V
   Vives, O
TI Search for highly-ionizing particles in pp collisions at the LHC's Run-1 using the prototype MoEDAL detector
SO European Physical Journal C
JI Eur. Phys. J. C
PY 2022
BP 694 - 16pp
VL 82
IS 8
DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10608-2
LA English
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).
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