MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect
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Journal Article
Abstract
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 CMS experiment was exposed to 184.07 μb−1 of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV center-of-mass energy per collision in December 2011, before being removed in 2013. It was scanned by the MoEDAL experiment using a SQUID magnetometer to search for trapped MMs. No MM signal was observed. The two distinctive features of this search are the use of a trapping volume very close to the collision point and ultrahigh magnetic fields generated during the heavy-ion run that could produce MMs via the Schwinger effect. These two advantages allowed setting the first reliable, world-leading mass limits on MMs with high magnetic charge.
Date Issued
2024-08-16
Date Acceptance
2024-07-25
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2024, 133 (7)
ISSN
0031-9007
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
133
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
Published by the American Physical Society 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. Open access publication funded by CERN.
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Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39213579
Subjects
COLLISIONS
Physical Sciences
Physics
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Science & Technology
STATES
STOPPING-POWER
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Article Number
071803
Date Publish Online
2024-08-15