Search for magnetic monopoles and stable particles with high electric charges in 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Summary, in English

A search for highly ionizing particles produced in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV center-of-mass energy is performed by the ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 7.0 fb-1. A customized trigger significantly increases the sensitivity, permitting a search for such particles with charges and energies beyond what was previously accessible. No events were found in the signal region, leading to production cross section upper limits in the mass range 200-2500 GeV for magnetic monopoles with magnetic charge in the range 0.5gD

• Author: G Aad; B. Abbott; O Abdinov; R Aben; M Abolins; O. S. AbouZeid; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; Lene Bryngemark; Caterina Doglioni; Anders Floderus; Anthony Hawkins; Vincent Hedberg; Jenny Ivarsson; Göran Jarlskog; Else Lytken; Ulf Mjörnmark; Oxana Smirnova; Oleksandr Viazlo
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2016
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Physical Review D
• Volume: 93
• Issue: 5
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.052009
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1550-2368