MoEDAL experiment

Large Hadron Collider
(LHC)
LHC experiments
ATLAS A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
CMS Compact Muon Solenoid
LHCb LHC-beauty
ALICE A Large Ion Collider Experiment
TOTEM Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation
LHCf LHC-forward
MoEDAL Monopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC
LHC preaccelerators
p and Pb Linear accelerators for protons (Linac 2) and Lead (Linac 3)
(not marked) Proton Synchrotron Booster
PS Proton Synchrotron
SPS Super Proton Synchrotron

MoEDAL (Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC) is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. It shares the cavern at Point 8 with LHCb, and its prime goal is to directly search for the magnetic monopole (MM)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] or dyon and other highly ionizing stable massive particles (SMPs) and pseudo-stable massive particles. To detect these particles, the project uses nuclear track detectors (NTDs), which suffer characteristic damage due to highly ionizing particles. As MMs and SMPs are highly ionizing, NTDs are perfectly suited for the purpose of detection.

It is an international research collaboration whose spokesperson is the University of Alberta's James Pinfold. It is the seventh experiment at the LHC, was approved and sanctioned by the CERN research board on May 2010, and started its first test deployment in January 2011.[9]

In 2012 MoEDAL accuracy surpassed accuracy of similar experiments. A new detector was installed in 2015,[10] but as of 2017 it also did not find any magnetic monopoles, setting new limits on their production cross section.[11]

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References

  1. ↑ Giacomelli, G.; Sioli, M. (2002). "Astroparticle Physics". arXiv:hep-ex/0211035 Freely accessible.
  2. ↑ Giacomelli, G.; Patrizii, L. (2001). "Magnetic Monopoles". arXiv:hep-ex/0112009 Freely accessible.
  3. ↑ Kalbfleisch, G. R.; Milton, K. A.; Strauss, M. G.; Gamberg, L.; Smith, E. H.; Luo, W. (2000). "Improved Experimental Limits on the Production of Magnetic Monopoles". Physical Review Letters. 85 (25): 5292–5295. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..85.5292K. PMID 11135979. arXiv:hep-ex/0005005 Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5292.
  4. ↑ Milton, K. A.; Kalbfleisch, G. R.; Strauss, M. G.; Gamberg, L.; Luo, W.; Smith, E. H. (2000). "New Limits on the Production of Magnetic Monopoles at Fermilab". arXiv:hep-ex/0009003 Freely accessible.
  5. ↑ Abbott, B.; et al. (D0 Collaboration) (1998). "Search for Heavy Pointlike Dirac Monopoles". Physical Review Letters. 81 (3): 524–529. Bibcode:1998PhRvL..81..524A. arXiv:hep-ex/9803023 Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.524.
  6. ↑ Giacomelli, G. (1984). "Magnetic monopoles". Rivista del Nuovo Cimento. 7 (12): 1–111. Bibcode:1984NCimR...7l...1G. doi:10.1007/BF02724347.
  7. ↑ Acciarri, M.; et al. (L3 Collaboration) (1995). "Search for anomalous Z → γγγ events at LEP". Physics Letters B. 345 (4): 609. Bibcode:1995PhLB..345..609A. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)01612-T.
  8. ↑ Gamberg, L.; Kalbfleisch, G. R.; Milton, K. A. (2000). "Direct and Indirect Searches for Low-Mass Magnetic Monopoles". Foundations of Physics. 30: 543–565. Bibcode:1999hep.ph....6526G. arXiv:hep-ph/9906526 Freely accessible. doi:10.1023/a:1003668812097.
  9. ↑ Pinfold, J. (5 May 2010). "MoEDAL becomes the LHC's magnificent seventh". CERN Courrier. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
  10. ↑ Acharya, B.; et al. (MoEDAL Collaboration) (2016). "Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL prototype trapping detector in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC". arXiv:1604.06645 Freely accessible [hep-ex].
  11. ↑ https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061801

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