MoEDAL Search in the CMS Beam Pipe for Magnetic Monopoles Produced via the Schwinger Effect
- NázevTitle
- MoEDAL Search in the CMS Beam Pipe for Magnetic Monopoles Produced via the Schwinger EffectMoEDAL Search in the CMS Beam Pipe for Magnetic Monopoles Produced via the Schwinger Effect
- Druh výsledkuResult type
- Článek v časopiseJournal article
- AutořiAuthors
- B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, S.C. Behera, P. Beneš, B. Bergmann, P. Burian, J. Janeček, S. Pospíšil, M. Suk
- Klíčová slovaKeywords
- magnetic monopole, BSM, new physics
- ExperimentCollaboration
- MoEDAL
- DOIDOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.071803
- Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
- Physical Review Letters 133(7), 071803 (2024) · ISSN 1079-7114
- RokYear
- 2024
- JazykLanguage
- eng
- ZáznamyRecords
- ProjektProject
- Institucionální podpora na rozvoj výzkumné org.Institucionální podpora na rozvoj výzkumné org.
- CitovánoCited by
- 35 (INSPIRE-HEP)
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AbstraktAbstract
We report on a search for magnetic monopoles (MMs) produced in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions during Run 1 of the LHC. The beam pipe surrounding the interaction region of the CMS experiment was exposed to 184.07 μb−1 of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV center-of-mass energy per collision in December 2011, before being removed in 2013. It was scanned by the MoEDAL experiment using a SQUID magnetometer to search for trapped MMs. No MM signal was observed. The two distinctive features of this search are the use of a trapping volume very close to the collision point and ultrahigh magnetic fields generated during the heavy-ion run that could produce MMs via the Schwinger effect. These two advantages allowed setting the first reliable, world-leading mass limits on MMs with high magnetic charge. In particular, the established limits are the strongest available in the range between 2 and 45 Dirac units, excluding MMs with masses of up to 80 GeV at a 95% confidence level.
We report on a search for magnetic monopoles (MMs) produced in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions during Run 1 of the LHC. The beam pipe surrounding the interaction region of the CMS experiment was exposed to 184.07 μb−1 of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV center-of-mass energy per collision in December 2011, before being removed in 2013. It was scanned by the MoEDAL experiment using a SQUID magnetometer to search for trapped MMs. No MM signal was observed. The two distinctive features of this search are the use of a trapping volume very close to the collision point and ultrahigh magnetic fields generated during the heavy-ion run that could produce MMs via the Schwinger effect. These two advantages allowed setting the first reliable, world-leading mass limits on MMs with high magnetic charge. In particular, the established limits are the strongest available in the range between 2 and 45 Dirac units, excluding MMs with masses of up to 80 GeV at a 95% confidence level.