TY  - JOUR
TI  - Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the MoEDAL Forward Trapping Detector in 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC
VL  - 118
AV  - public
Y1  - 2017/02//
N1  - 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.
IS  - 6
ID  - discovery1552403
N2  - 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.
SN  - 1079-7114
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061801
JF  - Physical Review Letters
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