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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 118, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.061801
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/L000326/1, ST/L00044X/1, ST/N00101X/1]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) [FPA2014-53631-C2-1-P, FPA2015-65652-C4-1-R]
- Generalitat Valenciana [PROMETEO-II/2013/017, PROMETEO-II/2014/066]
- Severo Ochoa Excellence Centre [SEV-2014-0398]
- Physics Department of King's College London
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- V-P Research of the University of Alberta
- Provost of the University of Alberta
- UEFISCDI (Romania)
- INFN (Italy)
- STFC [ST/P000258/1, ST/N00101X/1, ST/L00044X/1, 1951142, ST/L000326/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000326/1, ST/P000258/1, ST/L00044X/1, ST/N00101X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of long-lived highly ionizing particles produced in high-energy LHC collisions. Its arrays of plastic nuclear-track detectors and aluminium trapping volumes provide two independent passive detection techniques. We present here the results of a first search for magnetic monopole production in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions using the trapping technique, extending a previous publication with 8 TeV data during LHC Run 1. A total of 222 kg of MoEDAL trapping detector samples was exposed in the forward region and analyzed by searching for induced persistent currents after passage through a superconducting magnetometer. Magnetic charges exceeding half the Dirac charge are excluded in all samples and limits are placed for the first time on the production of magnetic monopoles in 13 TeV pp collisions. The search probes mass ranges previously inaccessible to collider experiments for up to five times the Dirac charge.
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