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Abreu LM, Brandão PCS, de Montigny M, Ouimet PPA. An effective field theory treatment of the production and annihilation of magnetic monopoles and their relic abundance. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 2022; 82:880. [PMID: 36217435 PMCID: PMC9537128 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10864-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
We revisit the thermal production and annihilation of magnetic monopoles and their relic abundance in order to gain a deeper physical interpretation on the monopole phenomenology predicted from the Baines et al.'s effective field theory, recently proposed in the description of monopole pair production via Drell-Yan and photon fusion processes. In this sense, we use of the vacuum cross sections for the Drell-Yan reactions derived within the mentioned framework to evaluate the cross section averaged over the thermal distribution associated to other particles that constitute the hot medium where the monopoles propagate. In the considered range of monopole mass with spin-zero and spin-half, our findings suggest that the thermally averaged cross sections for the pair production are highly suppressed, while at higher temperatures those for the annihilation of lighter pairs reach larger magnitudes. Besides, we observe that smaller temperature leads to a rate of annihilation for scalar monopoles smaller than the one for fermionic monopoles, which might be interpreted as a theoretical evidence of a more pronounced stability for spin-zero and heavier monopoles. Then we input these thermally averaged cross sections into the kinetic equation that describes the evolution of the monopole abundance via an extension of a freeze-out theory. Our results infer that heavier monopoles achieve the equilibrium at earlier stages of the expansion, and consequently at higher temperatures. In addition, larger monopole masses produce higher values of the relic abundance. Besides, the results indicate that the abundance does not behave differently for spin-zero and spin-half relic monopoles.
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Affiliation(s)
- Luciano M. Abreu
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Ondina, Salvador, Bahia 40170-115 Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Ondina, Salvador, Bahia 40170-115 Brazil
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- Faculté Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6C 4G9 Canada
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Iguro S, Plestid R, Takhistov V. Monopoles from an Atmospheric Fixed Target Experiment. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:201101. [PMID: 35657891 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.201101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Magnetic monopoles have a long history of theoretical predictions and experimental searches, carrying direct implications for fundamental concepts such as electric charge quantization. We analyze in detail for the first time magnetic monopole production from collisions of cosmic rays bombarding the atmosphere. This source of monopoles is independent of cosmology, has been active throughout Earth's history, and supplies an irreducible monopole flux for all terrestrial experiments. Using results for robust atmospheric fixed target experiment flux of monopoles, we systematically establish direct comparisons of previous ambient monopole searches with monopole searches at particle colliders and set leading limits on magnetic monopole production in the ∼5-100 TeV mass range.
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- Syuhei Iguro
- Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics (TTP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstraße 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
- Theoretical Physics Department, Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8583, Japan
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Acharya B, Alexandre J, Benes P, Bergmann B, Bernabéu J, Bevan A, Branzas H, Burian P, Campbell M, Cecchini S, Cho YM, de Montigny M, De Roeck A, Ellis JR, El Sawy M, Fairbairn M, Felea D, Frank M, Hays J, Hirt AM, Janecek J, Kalliokoski M, Korzenev A, Lacarrère DH, Leroy C, Levi G, Lionti A, Mamuzic J, Maulik A, Margiotta A, Mauri N, Mavromatos NE, Mermod P, Mieskolainen M, Millward L, Mitsou VA, Orava R, Ostrovskiy I, Ouimet PP, Papavassiliou J, Parker B, Patrizii L, Păvălaş GE, Pinfold JL, Popa LA, Popa V, Pozzato M, Pospisil S, Rajantie A, Ruiz de Austri R, Sahnoun Z, Sakellariadou M, Santra A, Sarkar S, Semenoff G, Shaa A, Sirri G, Sliwa K, Soluk R, Spurio M, Staelens M, Suk M, Tenti M, Togo V, Tuszyński JA, Upreti A, Vento V, Vives O, Wall A. First Search for Dyons with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV pp Collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:071801. [PMID: 33666471 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.071801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Revised: 10/10/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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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 (5g_{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 5g_{D} with mass limits in the range 870-2040 GeV.
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- B Acharya
- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Center for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom
- Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania
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- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Physics Department, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- INFN, Section of Bologna and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- INFN, Section of Bologna and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physics Department, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- Physics Department, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Schools, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- INFN, Section of Bologna and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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Pinfold JL. The MoEDAL experiment: a new light on the high-energy frontier. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2019; 377:20190382. [PMID: 31707965 PMCID: PMC6863479 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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MoEDAL is a pioneering LHC experiment designed to search for anomalously ionizing messengers of new physics, such as the magnetic monopole. After a test run at 8 TeV centre-of-mass energy (Ecm), it started official data taking at the LHC at an Ecm of 13 TeV, in 2015. Its groundbreaking physics program defines a number of scenarios that yield potentially revolutionary insights into such foundational questions as: are there extra dimensions or new symmetries; what is the mechanism for the generation of mass; does magnetic charge exist; do topological particles exist; and what is the nature of dark matter? After a brief introduction, MoEDAL's progress to date will be reported, including its past, current and expected future physics output. Additionally, an upgrade to the MoEDAL detector consisting of two new subdetectors: MAPP (MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles) now being prototyped at IP8; and MALL (MoEDAL Apparatus for very long-lived particles), will be presented. Finally, a possible astroparticle extension to MoEDAL, called Cosmic-MoEDAL, will be briefly described. This high altitude detector will allow the search for magnetic monopoles to be continued from the TeV scale to the GUT scale. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Topological avatars of new physics'.
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- James L. Pinfold
- Centre for Particle Physics, Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Alexandre J, Mavromatos NE. Weak-U(1)
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strong-U(1) effective gauge field theories and electron-monopole scattering. Int J Clin Exp Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.096005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Acharya B, Alexandre J, Baines S, Benes P, Bergmann B, Bernabéu J, Bevan A, Branzas H, Campbell M, Cecchini S, Cho YM, de Montigny M, De Roeck A, Ellis JR, El Sawy M, Fairbairn M, Felea D, Frank M, Hays J, Hirt AM, Janecek J, Kim DW, Korzenev A, Lacarrère DH, Lee SC, Leroy C, Levi G, Lionti A, Mamuzic J, Margiotta A, Mauri N, Mavromatos NE, Mermod P, Mieskolainen M, Millward L, Mitsou VA, Orava R, Ostrovskiy I, Papavassiliou J, Parker B, Patrizii L, Păvălaş GE, Pinfold JL, Popa V, Pozzato M, Pospisil S, Rajantie A, Ruiz de Austri R, Sahnoun Z, Sakellariadou M, Santra A, Sarkar S, Semenoff G, Shaa A, Sirri G, Sliwa K, Soluk R, Spurio M, Staelens M, Suk M, Tenti M, Togo V, Tuszyński JA, Vento V, Vives O, Vykydal Z, Wall A, Zgura IS. Magnetic Monopole Search with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV pp Collisions Interpreted in Photon-Fusion and Drell-Yan Production. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:021802. [PMID: 31386510 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.021802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of stable or pseudostable highly ionizing particles produced in high-energy Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collisions. Here we update our previous search for magnetic monopoles in Run 2 using the full trapping detector with almost four times more material and almost twice more integrated luminosity. For the first time at the LHC, the data were interpreted in terms of photon-fusion monopole direct production in addition to the Drell-Yan-like mechanism. The MoEDAL trapping detector, consisting of 794 kg of aluminum samples installed in the forward and lateral regions, was exposed to 4.0 fb^{-1} of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHCb interaction point and analyzed by searching for induced persistent currents after passage through a superconducting magnetometer. Magnetic charges equal to or above the Dirac charge are excluded in all samples. Monopole spins 0, ½, and 1 are considered and both velocity-independent and-dependent couplings are assumed. This search provides the best current laboratory constraints for monopoles with magnetic charges ranging from two to five times the Dirac charge.
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- B Acharya
- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, United Kingdom
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, United Kingdom
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, United Kingdom
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Physics Department, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, United Kingdom
- Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania
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- Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland-Associate member
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- Physics Department, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physics Department, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- INFN, Section of Bologna and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- INFN, Section of Bologna and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, United Kingdom
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- Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physics Department, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- Physics Department, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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- Institute for Research in Schools, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, United Kingdom
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King's College London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- INFN, Section of Bologna and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- INFN, Section of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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- IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania
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Abstract
MoEDAL is a pioneering LHC experiment designed to search for anomalously ionizing messengers of new physics. It started data taking at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, in 2015. Its ground breaking physics program defines a number of scenarios that yield potentially revolutionary insights into such foundational questions as: Are there extra dimensions or new symmetries? What is the mechanism for the generation of mass? Does magnetic charge exist? What is the nature of dark matter? After a brief introduction, we report on MoEDAL’s progress to date, including our past, current and expected future physics output. We also discuss two new sub-detectors for MoEDAL: MAPP (Monopole Apparatus for Penetrating Particles) now being prototyped at IP8; and MALL (Monopole Apparatus for very Long Lived particles), currently in the planning stage. I conclude with a brief description of our program for LHC Run-3.
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