Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions, intense electromagnetic fields may enable the generation of magnetic monopole pairs via the Schwinger mechanism. Due to their high ionization and unique trajectories in a solenoidal magnetic field, monopoles are expected to leave numerous clusters in the innermost ATLAS pixel detector without associated reconstructed charged-particle tracks or calorimeter activity. This document presents a search for monopole-pair production in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions in the monopole mass range of 20-150 GeV, based on 5.36 TeV data recorded in 2023 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Semiclassical free particle approximation model and a recent search limits obtained by the MoEDAL Collaboration are compared with the ATLAS results.
DOI: 10.22323/1.476.0621
Author: Krzysztof Cieśla
Institution: AGH University of Krakow
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Award: G2276081168
OpenAlex ID: W4405549042