| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 126, 2016
4th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics
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| Article Number | 04025 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Parallel | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612604025 | |
| Published online | 04 November 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612604025
Magnetic monopole search with the MoEDAL test trapping detector
Particle physics department, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
a e-mail: akshay.k@cern.ch
Published online: 4 November 2016
IMoEDAL is designed to search for monopoles produced in high-energy Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collisions, based on two complementary techniques: nucleartrack detectors for high-ionisation signatures and other highly ionising avatars of new physics, and trapping volumes for direct magnetic charge measurements with a superconducting magnetometer. The MoEDAL test trapping detector array deployed in 2012, consisting of over 600 aluminium samples, was analysed and found to be consistent with zero trapped magnetic charge. Stopping acceptances are obtained from a simulation of monopole propagation in matter for a range of charges and masses, allowing to set modelindependent and model-dependent limits on monopole production cross sections. Multiples of the fundamental Dirac magnetic charge are probed for the first time at the LHC.
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