MoEDAL Search in the CMS Beam Pipe for Magnetic Monopoles Produced via the Schwinger Effect.

Journal

Physical review letters

ISSN: 1079-7114

Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
16 Aug 2024

Historique:

received: 23 02 2024

revised: 30 05 2024

accepted: 25 07 2024

medline: 31 8 2024

pubmed: 31 8 2024

entrez: 30 8 2024

Statut: ppublish

Résumé

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. In particular, the established limits are the strongest available in the range between 2 and 45 Dirac units, excluding MMs with masses of up to 80 GeV at a 95% confidence level.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.071803 PMID: 39213579

pubmed: 39213579

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.071803

doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

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Pagination

071803

Auteurs

B Acharya (B)

Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom.

J Alexandre (J)

Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom.

S C Behera (SC)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, <a href="https://ror.org/03xrrjk67">University of Alabama</a>, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.

P Benes (P)

IEAP, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

B Bergmann (B)

IEAP, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

S Bertolucci (S)

INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

A Bevan (A)

School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom.

R Brancaccio (R)

INFN, Section of Bologna & Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

H Branzas (H)

Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Magurele, Romania.

P Burian (P)

IEAP, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

M Campbell (M)

Experimental Physics Department, <a href="https://ror.org/01ggx4157">CERN</a>, Geneva, Switzerland.

S Cecchini (S)

INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Y M Cho (YM)

Center for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea.

M de Montigny (M)

Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

A De Roeck (A)

Experimental Physics Department, <a href="https://ror.org/01ggx4157">CERN</a>, Geneva, Switzerland.

J R Ellis (JR)

Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom.

Theoretical Physics Department, <a href="https://ror.org/01ggx4157">CERN</a>, Geneva, Switzerland.

M Fairbairn (M)

Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom.

D Felea (D)

Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Magurele, Romania.

M Frank (M)

Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

O Gould (O)

University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

J Hays (J)

School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom.

A M Hirt (AM)

Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.

D L-J Ho (DL)

Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.

P Q Hung (PQ)

Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

J Janecek (J)

IEAP, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

M Kalliokoski (M)

Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

D H Lacarrère (DH)

Experimental Physics Department, <a href="https://ror.org/01ggx4157">CERN</a>, Geneva, Switzerland.

C Leroy (C)

Departement de Physique, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

G Levi (G)

INFN, Section of Bologna & Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

A Margiotta (A)

INFN, Section of Bologna & Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

R Maselek (R)

Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

A Maulik (A)

INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

N Mauri (N)

INFN, Section of Bologna & Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

N E Mavromatos (NE)

Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom.

L Millward (L)

School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom.

V A Mitsou (VA)

IFIC, Universitat de Valencia, CSIC, Valencia, Spain.

E Musumeci (E)

IFIC, Universitat de Valencia, CSIC, Valencia, Spain.

I Ostrovskiy (I)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, <a href="https://ror.org/03xrrjk67">University of Alabama</a>, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.

P-P Ouimet (PP)

Physics Department, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

J Papavassiliou (J)

IFIC, Universitat de Valencia, CSIC, Valencia, Spain.

L Patrizii (L)

INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

G E Păvălaş (GE)

Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Magurele, Romania.

J L Pinfold (JL)

Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

L A Popa (LA)

Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Magurele, Romania.

V Popa (V)

Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Magurele, Romania.

M Pozzato (M)

INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

S Pospisil (S)

IEAP, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

A Rajantie (A)

Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.

R Ruiz de Austri (R)

IFIC, Universitat de Valencia, CSIC, Valencia, Spain.

Z Sahnoun (Z)

INFN, Section of Bologna & Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

M Sakellariadou (M)

Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom.

K Sakurai (K)

Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

S Sarkar (S)

Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom.

G Semenoff (G)

Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

A Shaa (A)

Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

G Sirri (G)

INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

K Sliwa (K)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.

R Soluk (R)

Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

M Spurio (M)

INFN, Section of Bologna & Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

M Staelens (M)

IFIC, Universitat de Valencia, CSIC, Valencia, Spain.

M Suk (M)

IEAP, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

M Tenti (M)

INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

V Togo (V)

INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

J A Tuszyński (JA)

Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

A Upreti (A)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, <a href="https://ror.org/03xrrjk67">University of Alabama</a>, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.

V Vento (V)

IFIC, Universitat de Valencia, CSIC, Valencia, Spain.

O Vives (O)

IFIC, Universitat de Valencia, CSIC, Valencia, Spain.

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