Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral (Formula presented) Collisions at (Formula presented) with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.061803

Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral (Formula presented) Collisions at (Formula presented) with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

ATLAS Collaboration

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This Letter presents a search for highly ionizing magnetic monopoles in (Formula presented) of ultraperipheral (Formula presented) collision data at (Formula presented) collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A new methodology that exploits the properties of clusters of hits reconstructed in the innermost silicon detector layers is introduced to study highly ionizing particles in heavy-ion data. No significant excess above the background, which is estimated using a data-driven technique, is observed. Using a nonperturbative semiclassical model, upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the cross section for pair production of monopoles with a single Dirac magnetic charge in the mass range of 20-150 GeV. Depending on the model, monopoles with a single Dirac magnetic charge and mass below 80-120 GeV are excluded.

Original language	English
Article number	061803
Pages (from-to)	61803
Number of pages	1
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	134
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.061803
Publication status	Published - Feb 14 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/W000466/1

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