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MoEDAL experiment

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Large Hadron Collider
(LHC)
Plan of the LHC experiments and the preaccelerators.
LHC experiments
ATLASA Toroidal LHC Apparatus
CMSCompact Muon Solenoid
LHCbLHC-beauty
ALICEA Large Ion Collider Experiment
TOTEMTotal Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation
LHCfLHC-forward
MoEDALMonopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC
FASERForwArd Search ExpeRiment
SNDScattering and Neutrino Detector
LHC preaccelerators
p and PbLinear accelerators for protons (Linac 4) and lead (Linac 3)
(not marked)Proton Synchrotron Booster
PSProton Synchrotron
SPSSuper Proton Synchrotron

The MoEDAL experiment is a physics experiment employing the Monopole and Exotics Detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It shares the cavern at Point 8 with LHCb, and its prime goal is to directly search for the magnetic monopole (MM)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] or dyon and other highly ionizing stable massive particles (SMPs) and pseudo-stable massive particles. To detect these particles, the project uses nuclear track detectors (NTDs), which suffer characteristic damage due to highly ionizing particles. As MMs and SMPs are highly ionizing, NTDs are perfectly suited for the purpose of detection.

It is an international research collaboration whose spokesperson is the University of Alberta's James Pinfold. It is the seventh experiment at the LHC, was approved and sanctioned by the CERN research board on May 2010, and started its first test deployment in January 2011.[9]

In 2012 MoEDAL accuracy surpassed accuracy of similar experiments. A new detector was installed in 2015 from which data are yet to be analyzed.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Giacomelli, G.; Sioli, M. (2002). "Astroparticle Physics". arXiv:hep-ex/0211035.
  2. ^ Giacomelli, G.; Patrizii, L. (2001). "Magnetic Monopoles". arXiv:hep-ex/0112009.
  3. ^ Kalbfleisch, G. R.; Milton, K. A.; Strauss, M. G.; Gamberg, L.; Smith, E. H.; Luo, W. (2000). "Improved Experimental Limits on the Production of Magnetic Monopoles". Physical Review Letters. 85 (25): 5292–5295. arXiv:hep-ex/0005005. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..85.5292K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5292.
  4. ^ Milton, K. A.; Kalbfleisch, G. R.; Strauss, M. G.; Gamberg, L.; Luo, W.; Smith, E. H. (2000). "New Limits on the Production of Magnetic Monopoles at Fermilab". arXiv:hep-ex/0009003.
  5. ^ Abbott, B.; et al. (D0 Collaboration) (1998). "Search for Heavy Pointlike Dirac Monopoles". Physical Review Letters. 81 (3): 524–529. arXiv:hep-ex/9803023. Bibcode:1998PhRvL..81..524A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.524.
  6. ^ Giacomelli, G. (1984). "Magnetic monopoles". Rivista del Nuovo Cimento. 7 (12): 1–111. Bibcode:1984NCimR...7l...1G. doi:10.1007/BF02724347.
  7. ^ Acciarri, M.; et al. (L3 Collaboration) (1995). "Search for anomalous Z → γγγ events at LEP". Physics Letters B. 345 (4): 609. Bibcode:1995PhLB..345..609A. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)01612-T.
  8. ^ Gamberg, L.; Kalbfleisch, G. R.; Milton, K. A. (2000). "Direct and Indirect Searches for Low-Mass Magnetic Monopoles". Foundations of Physics. 30: 543–565. arXiv:hep-ph/9906526. Bibcode:1999hep.ph....6526G.
  9. ^ Pinfold, J. (5 May 2010). "MoEDAL becomes the LHC's magnificent seventh". CERN Courrier. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
  10. ^ Acharya, B.; et al. (MoEDAL Collaboration) (2016). "Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL prototype trapping detector in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC". arXiv:1604.06645 [hep-ex].

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