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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,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Vasiliki A. Mitsou

In this review, we discuss recent developments in both the theory and the experimental searches of magnetic monopoles in past, current and future colliders and in the Cosmos. The theoretical models include, apart from the standard Grand…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Nick E. Mavromatos , Vasiliki A. Mitsou

This Letter presents a search for highly ionizing magnetic monopoles in 262$~\mu$b$^{-1}$ of ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collision data at $\sqrt{s_{_\textrm{NN}}}=5.36$ TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A new methodology that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-18 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for magnetic monopoles and high-electric-charge objects is presented using 34.4 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV $pp$ collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2015 and 2016. The considered signature is based upon high…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-02-10 ATLAS Collaboration

The exclusive production by the photon fusion of magnetic monopoles and the bound states of magnetic monopoles, the monopolium, is consider in different high energy processes. More specifically, we calculate the total cross sections of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-01 J. T. Reis , W. K. Sauter

Monopoles have been a subject of much theoretical and experimental research since they were proposed to symmetrize Maxwell's equations. However, no experimental signature of their existence has been detected. Many mechanisms have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-08 Vicente Vento

This Letter presents a search for magnetic monopoles with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider using an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb^-1 of pp collisions recorded at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s)=7 TeV. No event is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-06-11 ATLAS Collaboration

The possibility of existence of a magnetic monopole has been surveyed by P. Dirac even in 1931, and then from the point of view of the modern theory by A.M. Polyakov and G.~ 'tHooft in 1974. Numerous and unsuccessful attempts of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Kolokolov , P. V. Vorob'ev , V. V. Ianovski

The existence of monopoles is a characteristic signature of Kaluza-Klein multidimensional theories. The topology of these solutions is extremely interesting. The existence of a dipole solution, which we have associated to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 Vicente Vento

In the grand tapestry of Physics, the magnetic monopole is a holy grail. Therefore, numerous efforts are underway in search of this hypothetical particle at CMS, ATLAS and MoEDAL experiments of LHC by employing different production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-18 Ijaz Ahmed , Sidra Swalheen , Mansoor Ur Rehman , Rimsha Tariq

Magnetic monopole is a well-motivated class of beyond-Standard-Model particles that could provide insights into the long-standing puzzle of the quantization of electric charge. These hypothetical particles are likely to be super heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-09-13 Changqing Ye , Beige Liu , Zhe Cao , Lingzhi Han , Xinming Huang , Min Jiang , Dong Liu , Qing Lin , Shitian Wan , Yusheng Wu , Lei Zhao , Yue Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Zhengguo Zhao

Magnetic monopoles have provided a rich field of study, leading to a wide area of research in particle physics, solid state physics, ultra-cold gases, superconductors, cosmology, and gauge theory. So far, no true magnetic monopoles were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-23 A. Béché , R. Van Boxem , G. Van Tendeloo , J. Verbeeck

Topology in general but also topological objects such as monopoles are a central concept in physics. They are prime examples for the intriguing physics of gauge theories and topological states of matter. Vector monopoles are already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 H. Weisbrich , M. Bestler , W. Belzig

We report on the search for Rare Particles (Magnetic Monopoles, Nuclearites, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Lightly Ionizing Particles) with the MACRO detector. For magnetic monopoles (the main goal of the experiment) our limit is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Fabrizio Cei

The MoEDAL experiment (Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC) is designed to directly search for magnetic monopoles and other highly ionising stable or metastable particles arising in various theoretical scenarios beyond the Standard…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-03 Vasiliki A. Mitsou

The magnetic monopole appears in theories of spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking and its existence would explain the quantisation of electric charge. MoEDAL is the latest approved LHC experiment, designed to search directly for monopoles…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-11-28 K. Bendtz , A. Katre , D. Lacarrère , P. Mermod , D. Milstead , J. Pinfold , R. Soluk

The electromagnetic decay and final annihilation of magnetic monopole-antimonopole pairs formed in the early universe has been proposed as a possible mechanism to produce the highest energy cosmic rays. We show that for a monopole abundance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Blanco-Pillado , Ken D. Olum

In order to satisfy the symmetry between electric and magnetic fields in the source free Maxwell's equations, electric charges might have magnetic counterparts: magnetic monopoles. Many methods and techniques are proposed to search for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-06 Jun Zhang , Ting Li

We construct a variety of bound states of Dirac magnetic monopoles in product $U(1)$ gauge theories that make up a Dirac magnetic monopole with unit magnetic charge under the unbroken $U(1)$ gauge group. The size of the bound states is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Kazuyuki Furuuchi , Moreshwar Pathak

Magnetic monopoles are hypothesised elementary particles connected by Dirac strings that behave like infinitely thin solenoids. Despite decades of searches, free magnetic monopoles and their Dirac strings have eluded experimental detection,…