@article{discovery1552403,
           month = {February},
          volume = {118},
          number = {6},
            note = {Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.},
            year = {2017},
           title = {Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the MoEDAL Forward Trapping Detector in 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC},
         journal = {Physical Review Letters},
          author = {Acharya, B and Alexandre, J and Baines, S and Benes, P and Bergmann, B and Bernab{\'e}u, J and Branzas, H and Campbell, M and Caramete, L and Cecchini, S and de Montigny, M and De Roeck, A and Ellis, JR and Fairbairn, M and Felea, D and Flores, J and Frank, M and Frekers, D and Garcia, C and Hirt, AM and Janecek, J and Kalliokoski, M and Katre, A and Kim, D-W and Kinoshita, K and Korzenev, A and Lacarr{\`e}re, DH and Lee, SC and Leroy, C and Lionti, A and Mamuzic, J and Margiotta, A and Mauri, N and Mavromatos, NE and Mermod, P and Mitsou, VA and Orava, R and Parker, B and Pasqualini, L and Patrizii, L and P{\ua}v{\ua}la{\cs}, GE and Pinfold, JL and Popa, V and Pozzato, M and Pospisil, S and Rajantie, A and Ruiz de Austri, R and Sahnoun, Z and Sakellariadou, M and Sarkar, S and Semenoff, G and Shaa, A and Sirri, G and Sliwa, K and Soluk, R and Spurio, M and Srivastava, YN and Suk, M and Swain, J and Tenti, M and Togo, V and Tuszy{\'n}ski, JA and Vento, V and Vives, O and Vykydal, Z and Whyntie, T and Widom, A and Willems, G and Yoon, JH and Zgura, IS},
            issn = {1079-7114},
        abstract = {MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of long-lived highly ionizing particles produced in high-energy LHC collisions. Its arrays of plastic nuclear-track detectors and aluminium trapping volumes provide two independent passive detection techniques. We present here the results of a first search for magnetic monopole production in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions using the trapping technique, extending a previous publication with 8 TeV data during LHC Run 1. A total of 222 kg of MoEDAL trapping detector samples was exposed in the forward region and analyzed by searching for induced persistent currents after passage through a superconducting magnetometer. Magnetic charges exceeding half the Dirac charge are excluded in all samples and limits are placed for the first time on the production of magnetic monopoles in 13 TeV 
pp collisions. The search probes mass ranges previously inaccessible to collider experiments for up to five times the Dirac charge.},
             url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061801}
}