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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 78, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6440-6
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- STFC (UK) doctoral studentship
- STFC (UK) [ST/P000258/1]
- Generalitat Valenciana (GV) through the MoEDAL
- Spanish MINECO [FPA2015-65652-C4-1-R]
- Severo Ochoa Excellence Centre [SEV-2014-0398]
- GV Excellence Project [PROMETEO-II/2017/033]
- Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, BBVA Foundation
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In this work we consider point-like monopole production via photon-fusion and Drell-Yan processes in the framework of an effective U(1) gauge field theory obtained from conventional models describing the interaction of magnetically-charged fields with ordinary photons, upon electric-magnetic dualisation. We present arguments based on such dualities which support the conjecture of an effective monopole-velocity-dependent magnetic charge. For the cases of 1 monopoles, we also include a magnetic-moment which is treated as a new phenomenological parameter and, together with the velocity-dependent coupling, allows for a perturbative treatment of the cross-section calculation. We discuss unitarity issues within these effective field theories, in particular we point out that in the spin-1 monopole case only the may restore unitarity. However from an effective-field-theory point of view, this lack of unitarity should not be viewed as an impediment for the phenomenological studies and experimental searches of generic spin-1 monopoles, given that the potential appearance of new degrees of freedom in the ultraviolet completion of such models might restore it. The second part of the paper deals with an appropriate implementation of photon-fusion and Drell-Yan processes based on the above theoretical scenarios into MadGraph UFO models, aimed to serve as a useful tool in interpretations of monopole searches at colliders such as LHC, especially for photon fusion, given that it has not been considered by experimental collaborations so far. Moreover, the experimental implications of such perturbatively reliable monopole searches have been laid out.
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