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MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect (2024)
Journal Article
Acharya, B., Alexandre, J., Benes, P., Behera, S. C., Bergmann, B., Bertolucci, S., Bevan, A., Brancaccio, R., Branzas, H., Burian, P., Campbell, M., Cecchini, S., Cho, Y., de Montigny, M., De Roeck, A., Ellis, J., Fairbairn, M., Felea, D., Frank, M., Gould, O., …Vives, O. (2024). MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect. Physical Review Letters, 133(7), Article 071803. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.071803

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 CMS experiment was exposed to 184.07  μ⁢b−1 of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 T... Read More about MoEDAL search in the CMS beam pipe for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger effect.

Search for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger mechanism (2022)
Journal Article
Acharya, B., Alexandre, J., Benes, P., Bergmann, B., Bertolucci, S., Bevan, A., Branzas, H., Burian, P., Campbell, M., Cho, Y. M., de Montigny, M., De Roeck, A., Ellis, J. R., Sawy, M. E., Fairbairn, M., Felea, D., Frank, M., Gould, O., Hays, J., Hirt, A. M., …Vives, O. (2022). Search for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger mechanism. Nature, 602(7895), 63-67. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04298-1

Electrically charged particles can be created by the decay of strong enough electric fields, a phenomenon known as the Schwinger mechanism1. By electromagnetic duality, a sufficiently strong magnetic field would similarly produce magnetic monopoles,... Read More about Search for magnetic monopoles produced via the Schwinger mechanism.