The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC: status and results
Abstract
The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC is optimised to detect highly ionising particles such as magnetic monopoles, dyons and (multiply) electrically charged stable massive particles predicted in a number of theoretical scenarios. MoEDAL, deployed in the LHCb cavern, combines passive nuclear track detectors with magnetic monopole trapping volumes (MMTs), while spallation-product backgrounds are being monitored with an array of MediPix pixel detectors. An introduction to the detector concept and its physics reach, complementary to that of the large general purpose LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS, will be given. Emphasis is given to the recent MoEDAL results at 13 TeV, where the null results from a search for magnetic monopoles in MMTs exposed in 2015 LHC collisions set the world-best limits on particles with magnetic charges more than 1.5 Dirac charge. The potential to search for heavy, long-lived supersymmetric electrically-charged particles is also discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1703.07141,
title = {The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC: status and results},
author = {Vasiliki A. Mitsou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07141},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
15 pages, 12 figures; invited plenary talk in 5th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE 2016), 28 Nov - 3 Dec 2016, Warsaw, Poland; based on arXiv:1411.7651 and arXiv:1612.07012