Magnetic monopoles revisited: Models and searches at colliders and in the Cosmos

NE Mavromatos, VA Mitsou - International Journal of Modern …, 2020 - World Scientific
In this review, we discuss recent developments in both the theory and the experimental
searches of magnetic monopoles in past, current and future colliders and in the Cosmos …

Review of particle physics

Particle Data Group, RL Workman… - … of theoretical and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous
editions, plus 2,143 new measurements from 709 papers, we list, evaluate, and average …

Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider

J Alimena, J Beacham, M Borsato… - Journal of Physics G …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are
long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as …

Relativistic motions of spin-zero quantum oscillator field in a global monopole space-time with external potential and AB-effect

F Ahmed - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In this paper, we analyze a spin-zero relativistic quantum oscillator in the presence of the
Aharonov–Bohm magnetic flux in a space-time background produced by a point-like global …

gamma-UPC: automated generation of exclusive photon-photon processes in ultraperipheral proton and nuclear collisions with varying form factors

HS Shao, D d'Enterria - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract The automated generation of arbitrary exclusive final states produced via photon
fusion in ultraperipheral high-energy collisions of protons and/or nuclei, AB\(\overset …

Search for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger mechanism

B Acharya, J Alexandre, P Benes, B Bergmann… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Electrically charged particles can be created by the decay of strong enough electric fields, a
phenomenon known as the Schwinger mechanism. By electromagnetic duality, a sufficiently …

MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect

B Acharya, J Alexandre, SC Behera, P Benes… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report on a search for magnetic monopoles (MMs) produced in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb
collisions during Run 1 of the LHC. The beam pipe surrounding the interaction region of the …

Minicharged Particles at Accelerators: Progress and Prospects

M de Montigny, PPA Ouimet, J Pinfold, A Shaa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Minicharged particles (mCPs), hypothetical free particles with tiny electric charges below the
elementary charge, $ e $, offer a valuable probe of dark sectors and fundamental physics …

Search for magnetic monopoles and stable high-electric-charge objects in 13 Tev proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, O Abdinov, A Abed Abud… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
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 …

First Search for Dyons with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV Collisions

B Acharya, J Alexandre, P Benes, B Bergmann… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The MoEDAL trapping detector consists of approximately 800 kg of aluminum volumes. It
was exposed during run 2 of the LHC program to 6.46 fb-1 of 13 TeV proton-proton …