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most citedThe Physics Programme Of The MoEDAL Experiment At The LHC

129 citations · 851 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

physics.ins-det2022

The Phase-I Trigger Readout Electronics Upgrade of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeters

G. Aad, A. V. Akimov, K. Al Khoury +195

The Phase-I trigger readout electronics upgrade of the ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeters enhances the physics reach of the experiment during the upcoming operation at increasing Larg…

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…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 12 cited

Sub-Doppler spectra of sodium lines in a wide range of magnetic field: theoretical study

Rodolphe Momier, Aram V. Papoyan, Claude Leroy

We compute the interaction of a sodium vapor with a static magnetic field ranging from 0 up to 1 Tesla, which allows to obtain the behavior of all Zeeman transitions as a function…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Inverse square root level-crossing quantum two-state model

T. A. Ishkhanyan, A. V. Papoyan, A. M. Ishkhanyan +1

We introduce a new unconditionally solvable level-crossing two-state model given by a constant-amplitude optical field configuration for which the detuning is an inverse-square-roo…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 6 cited

New standard magnetic field values determined by cancellations of and atomic vapors transitions

Rodolphe Momier, Artur Aleksanyan, Emil Gazazyan +2

In this article, we study the theoretical behaviour of all the possible hyperfine transitions (, and ) between the and states of and ${}^…

physics.atom-ph2020

All magnetic field values cancelling line transitions of alkali metal atoms

Artur Aleksanyan, Rodolphe Momier, Emil Gazazyan +2

In this work, , and transitions between magnetic sublevels of the line of all alkali atoms are considered analytically. General block Hamiltonian matrices in p…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 3 cited

Transition cancellations of Rb and Rb atoms in a magnetic field setting new standards

Artur Aleksanyan, Rodolphe Momier, Emil Gazazyan +2

We have analyzed the magnetic field dependences of intensities of all the optical transitions between magnetic sublevels of hyperfine levels, excited with , and pola…

hep-ex2020★ 39 cited

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…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 27 cited

Proof of the feasibility of a nanocell-based wide-range optical magnetometer

Emmanuel Klinger, Hrayr Azizbekyan, Armen Sargsyan +3

We present an experimental scheme performing scalar magnetometry based on the fitting of Rb D line spectra recorded by derivative selective reflection spectroscopy from an opti…

physics.atom-ph2019

Resolution-enhanced quantitative spectroscopy of atomic vapor in optical nanocells based on second-derivative processing of spectra

Armen Sargsyan, Arevik Amiryan, Yevgenya Pashayan-Leroy +3

We present a method for recovery of narrow homogeneous spectral features out of broad inhomogeneous overlapped profile based on second-derivative processing of the absorption spect…

hep-ex2019★ 77 cited

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…

hep-ex2017★ 63 cited

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…

physics.atom-ph2017

Symmetry breaking exhibition by magnetic field induced explicit circular dichroism

A. Tonoyan, A. Sargsyan, E. Klinger +5

In this letter we demonstrate universal symmetry breaking by means of magnetically induced circular dichroism. Magnetic field induces forbidden at zero field atomic transitions bet…

quant-ph2017★ 6 cited

A periodic level-crossing two-state model of a general Heun class

G. Saget, A. M. Ishkhanyan, C. Leroy +1

We present a specific constant-amplitude periodic level-crossing model of the semi-classical quantum time-dependent two-state problem that belongs to a general Heun class of field…

quant-ph2017★ 10 cited

Adiabatic tracking for photo- and magneto-association of Bose-Einstein condensates with Kerr nonlinearities

M. Gevorgyan, S. Guérin, C. Leroy +2

We develop the method of adiabatic tracking for photo- and magneto-association of Bose-Einstein atomic condensates with models that include Kerr type nonlinearities. We show that t…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 15 cited

Magnetic field--induced modification of selection rules for Rb D line monitored by selective reflection from a vapor nanocell

Emmanuel Klinger, Armen Sargsyan, Ara Tonoyan +4

Magnetic field-induced giant modification of the probabilities of five transitions of of Rb and three transitions of $5S_{1/2},…

physics.ins-det2017★ 16 cited

Precision Luminosity of LHC Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TeV Using Hit-Counting with TPX Pixel Devices

Andre Sopczak, Babar Ali, Thanawat Asawatavonvanich +19

A network of Timepix (TPX) devices installed in the ATLAS cavern measures the LHC luminosity as a function of time as a stand-alone system. The data were recorded from 13 TeV proto…

hep-ex2016★ 90 cited

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…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 50 cited

Decoupling of hyperfine structure of Cs line in strong magnetic field studied by selective reflection from a nanocell

Armen Sargsyan, Emmanuel Klinger, Grant Hakhumyan +4

Decoupling of total electronic and nuclear spin moments of Cs atoms in external magnetic field for the case of atomic line, leading to onset of the hyperfine Paschen-Back reg…

hep-ex2016★ 80 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2015★ 16 cited

MPX Detectors as LHC Luminosity Monitor

Andre Sopczak, Babar Ali, Nedaa Asbah +15

A network of 16 Medipix-2 (MPX) silicon pixel devices was installed in the ATLAS detector cavern at CERN. It was designed to measure the composition and spectral characteristics of…

cond-mat.stat-mech2015★ 1 cited

Chaotic spin-spin entanglement on a recursive lattice

Levon Chakhmakhchyan, Stéphane Guérin, Claude Leroy

We propose an exactly solvable multisite interaction spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg model on a triangulated Husimi lattice for the rigorous studies of chaotic entanglement. By making us…

quant-ph2014★ 15 cited

Generation of entanglement in systems of intercoupled qubits

Levon Chakhmakhchyan, Claude Leroy, Nerses Ananikian +1

We consider systems of two and three qubits, mutually coupled by Heisenberg-type exchange interaction and interacting with external laser fields. We show that these systems allow o…