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First Search for Dyons with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV pp Collisions

ContributorsMoEDAL Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 126, 071801
Publication date2021
First online date2021-02-19
Abstract

The MoEDAL trapping detector consists of approximately 800 kg of aluminum volumes. It was exposed during run 2 of the LHC program to 6.46  fb-1 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 (5gD) 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 5gD with mass limits in the range 870–2040 GeV.

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Keywords
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • Charge, magnetic
  • Charge, electric
  • P p, scattering
  • Vertex, primary
  • Model, production
  • Current, induced
  • Dyon
  • Capture
  • Aluminum
  • TeV
  • GeV
  • LHC-B
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Drell-Yan process
  • S015CA
  • S028C
NotearXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1903.08491
Funding
  • UK Research and Innovation - From supersymmetry, strings and branes to the LHC and cosmology. [ST/L000326/1]
  • UK Research and Innovation - Pathways between Fundamental Physics and Phenomenology [ST/T000759/1]
  • UK Research and Innovation - Fundamental Physics from the Planck Scale to the LHC [ST/P000258/1]
  • UK Research and Innovation - M-Theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory [ST/L00044X/1]
  • UK Research and Innovation - CERN@school and GridPP: harnessing the power of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for research in schools and beyond [ST/N00101X/1]
Citation (ISO format)
MoEDAL Collaboration. First Search for Dyons with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV <i>pp</i> Collisions. In: Physical review letters, 2021, vol. 126, p. 071801. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.071801
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