Publications (8)
First experimental search for production of magnetic monopoles via the Schwinger mechanism
B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, P. Benes +64
Schwinger showed that electrically-charged particles can be produced in a strong electric field by quantum tunnelling through the Coulomb barrier. By electromagnetic duality, if ma…
Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC
MoEDAL Collaboration, B. Acharya, J. Alexandre +68
MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of long-lived highly-ionising particles produced in high-energy LHC collisions. Its arrays of plastic nuclear-track detectors…
MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect
B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, S. C. Behera +64
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 CM…
Search for Highly-Ionizing Particles in pp Collisions at the LHC's Run-1 Using the Prototype MoEDAL Detector
B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, P. Benes +68
A search for highly electrically charged objects (HECOs) and magnetic monopoles is presented using 2.2 fb-1 of p - p collision data taken at a centre of mass energy (ECM) of 8 TeV…
Prospects of searches for long-lived charged particles with MoEDAL
B. S. Acharya, A. De Roeck, J. Ellis +7
We study the prospects of searches for exotic long-lived particles with the MoEDAL detector at the LHC, assuming the integrated luminosity of 30 fb that is expected at the e…
Magnetic monopole search with the full MoEDAL trapping detector in 13 TeV collisions interpreted in photon-fusion and Drell-Yan production
MoEDAL Collaboration, B. Acharya, J. Alexandre +66
MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of stable or pseudostable highly ionizing particles produced in high-energy Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collisions. Here we u…
Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 2.11 fb of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC
MoEDAL Collaboration, B. Acharya, J. Alexandre +68
We update our previous search for trapped magnetic monopoles in LHC Run 2 using nearly six times more integrated luminosity and including additional models for the interpretation o…
First search for dyons with the full MoEDAL trapping detector in 13 TeV pp collisions
B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, P. Benes +66
The MoEDAL trapping detector, consists of approximately 800 kg of aluminium volumes. It was exposed during Run-2 of the LHC program to 6.46 fb^-1 of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions…