TY  - JOUR
AU  - MoEDAL Collaboration (Acharya, B. et al
AU  - Bernabeu, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Mamuzic, J.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Ruiz de Austri, R.
AU  - Vento, V.
AU  - Vives, O.
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the MoEDAL Forward Trapping Detector in 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC
T2  - Phys. Rev. Lett.
JO  - Physical Review Letters
SP  - 061801
EP  - 6pp
VL  - 118
IS  - 6
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0031-9007
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06817
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061801
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061801
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000393747300004
ID  - MoEDALCollaborationAcharya_etal2017
ER  -