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Generalisation of affine Lie algebras on compact real manifolds
Rutwig Campoamor-Stursberg, Marc de Montigny, Michel Rausch de Traubenberg
We report on recent work concerning a new type of generalised Kac-Moody algebras based on the spaces of differentiable mappings from compact manifolds or homogeneous spaces onto co…
An Effective Field Theory Treatment of the Production and Annihilation of Magnetic Monopoles and their Relic Abundance
Luciano M. Abreu, Pedro C. S. Brandão, Marc de Montigny +1
We revisit the thermal production red and annihilation of magnetic monopoles and their relic abundance in order to gain a deeper physical interpretation on the monopole phenomenolo…
Non-commutativity and non-inertial effects on a scalar field in a cosmic string space-time. Part 2: Spin-zero Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau-like oscillator
R. R. Cuzinatto, M. de Montigny, P. J. Pompeia
We study the non-inertial effects of a rotating frame on a spin-zero, Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP)-like oscillator in a cosmic string space-time with non-commutative geometry in the…
Non-commutativity and non-inertial effects on a scalar field in a cosmic string space-time. Part 1: Klein-Gordon oscillator
R. R. Cuzinatto, M. de Montigny, P. J. Pompeia
We analyse the Klein-Gordon oscillator in a cosmic string space-time and study the effects stemming from the rotating frame and non-commutativity in momentum space. We show that th…
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…
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…
An overview of generalised Kac-Moody algebras on compact real manifolds
Rutwig Campoamor-Stursberg, Marc de Montigny, Michel Rausch de Traubenberg
A generalised notion of Kac-Moody algebra is defined using smooth maps from a compact real manifold to a finite-dimensional Lie group, by means of complete orthonorma…
Comment on: "Interaction of the magnetic quadrupole moment of a non-relativistic particle with an electric field in a rotating frame. Ann. Phys. 412 (2020) 168040''
Francisco M. Fernández
We analyze a recent treatment of the interaction of a magnetic quadrupole moment with a radial electric field for a non-relativistic particle in a rotating frame and show that the…
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…
The Dirac oscillator in a spinning cosmic string spacetime
Mansoureh Hosseinpour, Hassan Hassanabadi, Marc de Montigny
We examine the effects of gravitational fields produced by topological defects on a Dirac field and a Dirac oscillator in a spinning cosmic string spacetime. We obtain the eigenfun…
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…
Quasi-Elastic Neutrino Reactions on Carbon and Lead Nuclei
Mohammad Hedayatipoor, James Finlay, Soheyl Massoudi +2
We examine neutral-current quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus reactions on C and Pb targets. We use the relativistic mean field theory approach to describe the nuclear d…
The Coulomb potential in quantum mechanics revisited
A. A. Othman, M. de Montigny, F. Marsiglio
The procedure commonly used in textbooks for determining the eigenvalues and eigenstates for a particle in an attractive Coulomb potential is not symmetric in the way the boundary…
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…
Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation in curved space-time with scalar linear interactions
H. Hassanabadi, M. Hosseinpour, M. de Montigny
In this paper, we study the covariant Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) equation in the space-time generated by a cosmic string and we examine the linear interaction of a DKP field with g…
Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL prototype trapping detector in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC
MoEDAL Collaboration, B. Acharya, J. Alexandre +66
The MoEDAL experiment is designed to search for magnetic monopoles and other highly-ionising particles produced in high-energy collisions at the LHC. The largely passive MoEDAL det…
The Physics Programme Of The MoEDAL Experiment At The LHC
B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, J. Bernabéu +59
The MoEDAL experiment at Point 8 of the LHC ring is the seventh and newest LHC experiment. It is dedicated to the search for highly ionizing particle avatars of physics beyond the…
Classic tests of General Relativity described by brane-based spherically symmetric solutions
R. R. Cuzinatto, P. J. Pompeia, M. de Montigny +2
We discuss a way to obtain information about higher dimensions from observations by studying a brane-based spherically symmetric solution. The three classic tests of General Relati…
Schwarzschild-type solution in an effective gravitational theory with local Galilean invariance
R. R. Cuzinatto, P. J. Pompeia, M. de Montigny +1
We construct a Schwarzschild-type exact external solution for a theory of gravity admitting local Galilean invariance. In order to realize the Galilean invariance we need to adopt…
Path-integral quantization of Galilean Fermi fields
M. de Montigny, F. C. Khanna, F. M. Saradzhev
The Galilei-covariant fermionic field theories are quantized by using the path-integral method and five-dimensional Lorentz-like covariant expressions of non-relativistic field equ…
Scalar Leptoquark Pair Production at the CERN LHC: Signal and Backgrounds
B. Dion, M. de Montigny, L. Marleau +1
We present the results of an analysis for the pair production of scalar leptoquarks at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with energy=14 TeV and luminosity=10 fb^{-1} which inclu…
Graded Contractions of Affine Kac-Moody Algebras
Marc de Montigny
The method of graded contractions, based on the preservation of the automorphisms of finite order, is applied to the affine Kac-Moody algebras and their representations, to yield a…
Production of Pairs of Sleptoquarks in Hadron Colliders
M. de Montigny, L. Marleau, G. Simon
We calculate the cross section for the production of pairs of scalar leptoquarks (sleptoquarks) in a supersymmetric model, at hadron colliders. We estimate higher order corre…
Elements of Finite Order in Lie Groups and Discrete Gauge Symmetries
Marc de Montigny
We apply Kac's theory of elements of finite order (EFO) in Lie groups to the description of discrete gauge symmetries in various supersymmetric grand unified models. Taking into ac…