Search for Highly Ionizing Particles in p p Collisions during LHC Run 2 Using the Full MoEDAL Detector

作者：B. S. Acharya, Jean Alexandre, P. Beneš, B. Bergmann, S. Bertolucci, A. J. Bevan, Rosa Brancaccio, H. Brânzaş, Petr Burian, M. Campbell, S. Cecchini, Y. M. Cho, M. de Montigny, A. De Roeck, J. R. Ellis, Malcolm Fairbairn, D. Felea, Mariana Frank, J. Hays, Ann M. Hirt, David L.-J. Ho, P. Q. Hung, J. Janecek, M. Kalliokoski, D. Lacarrère, C. Leroy, G. Lévi, A. Margiotta, Rafał Masełek, A. Maulik, N. Mauri, N. E. Mavromatos, Mikael Mieskolainen, L. Millward, V. A. Mitsou, Anumita Mukhopadhyay, E. Musumeci, I. Ostrovskiy, Pierre-Philippe A. Ouimet, Joannis Papavassiliou, L. Patrizii, G. E. Păvălaş, J. L. Pinfold, L. Popa, V. Popa, M. Pozzato, S. Pospisil, Arttu Rajantie, R. Ruiz de Austri, Z. Sahnoun, Mairi Sakellariadou, Kazuki Sakurai, Sagari Sarkar, G. W. Semenoff, A. Shaa, G. Sirri, K. Śliwa, R. Soluk, M. Spurio, Michael Staelens, M. Suk, M. Tenti, V. Togo, Jack A. Tuszyński, A. Upreti, V. Vento, O. Vives · 发表于：Physical Review Letters · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1103/physrevlett.134.071802 · 被引用次数：9 · 研究领域：Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies、High-Energy Particle Collisions Research、Particle Detector Development and Performance

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 6.46 fb^{-1} proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV. The results are interpreted in terms of Drell-Yan and photon-fusion pair production. Mass limits on direct production of MMs of up to 10 Dirac magnetic charges and HECOs with electric charge in the range 10e to 400e, were achieved. The charge limits placed on MM and HECO production are currently the strongest in the world. MoEDAL is the only LHC experiment capable of being directly calibrated for highly ionizing particles using heavy ions and with a detector system dedicated to definitively measuring magnetic charge.