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most citedFirst experimental search for production of magnetic monopoles via the Schwinger mechanism

57 citations · 187 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.ins-det2025★ 4 cited

Calibration of Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors for Rare Event Searches

M. Kalliokoski, G. Levi, A. Maulik +9

The calibration of the CR39 and Makrofol Nuclear Track Detectors of the MoEDAL experiment at the CERN-LHC was performed by exposing stacks of detector foils to heavy ion beams with…

nucl-ex2024★ 17 cited

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…

hep-ex2023★ 10 cited

Search for Highly-Ionizing Particles in pp Collisions During LHC Run-2 Using the Full MoEDAL Detector

MoEDAL Collaboration

This search for Magnetic Monopoles (MMs) and High Electric Charge Objects (HECOs) with spins 0, 1/2 and 1, uses for the first time the full MoEDAL detector, exposed to 6.6 fb^-1 pr…

hep-ex2021★ 20 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 57 cited

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…

hep-ex2020★ 4 cited

Attenuation of electromagnetic radiation in Nuclear Track Detectors

R. Bhattacharyya, A. Maulik, R. P. Adak +10

A systematic study of the attenuation of electromagnetic radiation in Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) is carried out. The attenuation of gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, visible, and infrared…