First Search for dyons with the full MoEDAL trapping detector in 13 TeV pp collisions
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The MoEDAL trapping detector consists of approximately 800 kg of aluminum volumes. It was exposed during run 2 of the LHC program to
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of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHCb interaction point. Evidence for dyons (particles with electric and magnetic charge) captured in the trapping detector was sought by passing the aluminum volumes comprising the detector through a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer. The presence of a trapped dyon would be signaled by a persistent current induced in the SQUID magnetometer. On the basis of a Drell-Yan production model, we exclude dyons with a magnetic charge ranging up to five Dirac charges (
5
g
D
) and an electric charge up to 200 times the fundamental electric charge for mass limits in the range 870–3120 GeV and also monopoles with magnetic charge up to and including 5
g
D
with mass limits in the range 870–2040 GeV.
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of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHCb interaction point. Evidence for dyons (particles with electric and magnetic charge) captured in the trapping detector was sought by passing the aluminum volumes comprising the detector through a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer. The presence of a trapped dyon would be signaled by a persistent current induced in the SQUID magnetometer. On the basis of a Drell-Yan production model, we exclude dyons with a magnetic charge ranging up to five Dirac charges (
5
g
D
) and an electric charge up to 200 times the fundamental electric charge for mass limits in the range 870–3120 GeV and also monopoles with magnetic charge up to and including 5
g
D
with mass limits in the range 870–2040 GeV.
Date Issued
2021-02-19
Date Acceptance
2021-01-12
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2021, 126 (7)
ISSN
0031-9007
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
126
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
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. Funded by SCOAP3.
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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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Grant Number
ST/P000762/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Physics
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
STOPPING-POWER
PARTICLES
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 071801