Search for Highly Ionizing Particles in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math> Collisions during LHC Run 2 Using the Full MoEDAL Detector
This search for magnetic monopoles (MMs) and high electric charge objects (HECOs) with spins 0, 1/2, and 1, uses for the first time the full MoEDAL detector, exposed to 6.46 fb^{-1} proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV. The results are interpreted in terms of Drell-Yan and photon-fusion pair production. Mass limits on direct production of MMs of up to 10 Dirac magnetic charges and HECOs with electric charge in the range 10e to 400e, were achieved. The charge limits placed on MM and HECO production are currently the strongest in the world. MoEDAL is the only LHC experiment capable of being directly calibrated for highly ionizing particles using heavy ions and with a detector system dedicated to definitively measuring magnetic charge.
Authors
- P. Q. Hung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-8522)
- Arttu Rajantie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6406-4412)
- M. Spurio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8698-3655)
- E. Musumeci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2077-4949)
- J. Janecek
- Mairi Sakellariadou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2715-1517)
- P.-P. Ouimet
- P. Beneš (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4637-2929)
- N. Mauri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-1548)
- Petr Burian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6907-7901)
- Rafał Masełek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5558-8249)
- Z. Sahnoun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1176-2003)
- G. Lévi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1714-6359)
- G. Sirri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2626-2853)
- M. de Montigny (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5384-2891)
- A. Shaa
- A. Upreti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0112-2854)
- J. L. Pinfold (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2397-4196)
- Y. M. Cho
- I. Ostrovskiy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4939-0225)
- V. Vento (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3790-4762)
- S. Bertolucci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1738-4736)
- Ann M. Hirt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2193-0472)
- B. S. Acharya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8588-9157)
- L. Patrizii
- David L.-J. Ho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-9573)
- Michael Staelens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6401-0043)
- A. Maulik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8518-2741)
- O. Vives (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7213-584X)
- V. A. Mitsou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1533-8886)
- Anumita Mukhopadhyay
- Mariana Frank (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2268-4821)
- Mikael Mieskolainen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8893-7401)
- M. Pozzato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0279-5436)
- Malcolm Fairbairn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0566-4127)
- Jean Alexandre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3499-7534)
- L. Millward
- M. Kalliokoski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4963-0121)
- K. Śliwa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1201-4771)
- Kazuki Sakurai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8817-714X)
- Joannis Papavassiliou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3958-8174)
- Jack A. Tuszyński (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9976-0429)
- D. Felea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3734-9439)
- Roberto Ruiz de Austri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3688-9609)
- Rosa Brancaccio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6240-5586)
- R. Soluk
- A. De Roeck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9228-5271)
- B. Bergmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8076-5614)
- A. J. Bevan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4105-9629)
- Sagari Sarkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4898-4657)
- M. Suk
- M. Tenti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4254-5901)
- L. Popa
- S. Cecchini
- H. Brânzaş
- C. Leroy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3105-7045)
- J. Hays
- M. Campbell
- D. Lacarrère (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6974-140X)
- V. Togo
- G. W. Semenoff
- S. Pospisil
- G. E. Păvălaş
- N. E. Mavromatos
- J. R. Ellis
- V. Popa
- A. Margiotta
Institutions
- Tufts University (US)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Sogang University (KR)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Universitat de València (ES)
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- University of Alabama (US)
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Regina (CA)
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (FR)
- Institute of Space Science - INFLPR Subsidiary (RO)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna (IT)
- Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ)
- University of Warsaw (PL)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- University of Virginia (US)
- Concordia University (CA)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CH)
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- University of Bologna (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-02-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.071802
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.35
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- King’s College London
- University of Alabama
- University of Alberta
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Generalitat Valenciana
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality
- Narodowe Centrum Nauki
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
- Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación