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Ruth Pöttgen

Senior Lecturer

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Search for Magnetic Monopoles and Stable High-Electric-Charge Objects in 13 Tev Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

Author

  • Aad G.
  • T. Åkesson
  • S. Bocchetta
  • L. Bryngemark
  • E. Corrigan
  • C. Doglioni
  • K. Gregersen
  • E. Hansen
  • V. Hedberg
  • G. Jarlskog
  • C. Kalderon
  • E. Kellermann
  • B. Konya
  • E. Lytken
  • K. Mankinen
  • C. Marcon
  • J. Mjörnmark
  • G. Mullier
  • R. Poettgen
  • T. Poulsen
  • E. Skorda
  • O. Smirnova
  • Zwalinski L.

Summary, in English

A search for magnetic monopoles and high-electric-charge objects is presented using 34.4 fb-1 of 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2015 and 2016. The considered signature is based upon high ionization in the transition radiation tracker of the inner detector associated with a pencil-shape energy deposit in the electromagnetic calorimeter. The data were collected by a dedicated trigger based on the tracker high-threshold hit capability. The results are interpreted in models of Drell-Yan pair production of stable particles with two spin hypotheses (0 and 1/2) and masses ranging from 200 to 4000 GeV. The search improves by approximately a factor of 5 the constraints on the direct production of magnetic monopoles carrying one or two Dirac magnetic charges and stable objects with electric charge in the range 20≤|z|≤60 and extends the charge range to 60

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review Letters

Volume

124

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Electric charge
  • High energy physics
  • Object detection
  • Particle detectors
  • Tellurium compounds
  • ATLAS detectors
  • Direct production
  • Electromagnetic calorimeter
  • High-ionization
  • Magnetic charges
  • Magnetic monopoles
  • Proton proton collisions
  • Transition radiation trackers
  • Magnetism
  • article
  • electricity

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0031-9007