@article{aad0d5ec8a54407287ce47fd26d96a1f,
title = "Search for highly-ionizing particles in pp collisions at the LHC{\textquoteright}s Run-1 using the prototype MoEDAL detector",
abstract = "A search for highly electrically charged objects (HECOs) and magnetic monopoles is presented using 2.2 fb - 1 of p- p collision data taken at a centre of mass energy (ECM) of 8 TeV by the MoEDAL detector during LHC{\textquoteright}s Run-1. The data were collected using MoEDAL{\textquoteright}s prototype Nuclear Track Detectord array and the Trapping Detector array. The results are interpreted in terms of Drell–Yan pair production of stable HECO and monopole pairs with three spin hypotheses (0, 1/2 and 1). The search provides constraints on the direct production of magnetic monopoles carrying one to four Dirac magnetic charges and with mass limits ranging from 590 GeV/c2 to 1 TeV/c2. Additionally, mass limits are placed on HECOs with charge in the range 10e to 180e, where e is the charge of an electron, for masses between 30 GeV/c2 and 1 TeV/c2.",
author = "MoEDAL COLLABORATION and B. Acharya and J. Alexandre and P. Benes and B. Bergmann and S. Bertolucci and A. Bevan and R. Bhattacharyya and H. Branzas and P. Burian and M. Campbell and S. Cecchini and Cho, {Y. M.} and {de Montigny}, M. and {De Roeck}, A. and Ellis, {J. R.} and {El Sawy}, M. and M. Fairbairn and D. Felea and M. Frank and J. Hays and Hirt, {A. M.} and Hung, {P. Q.} and J. Janecek and M. Kalliokoski and A. Korzenev and Lacarr{\'e}re, {D. H.} and C. Leroy and G. Levi and A. Lionti and A. Margiotta and R. Maselek and A. Maulik and N. Mauri and Mavromatos, {N. E.} and E. Musumeci and M. Mieskolainen and L. Millward and Mitsou, {V. A.} and R. Orava and I. Ostrovskiy and Ouimet, {P. P.} and J. Papavassiliou and B. Parker and L. Patrizii and P{\u a}v{\u a}la{\c s}, {G. E.} and Pinfold, {J. L.} and Popa, {L. A.} and V. Popa and M. Sakellariadou and K. Sakurai",
note = "Funding Information: We thank CERN for the LHC{\textquoteright}s successful Run-1 operation, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom MoEDAL could not be operated. We acknowledge the invaluable assistance of particular members of the LHCb Collaboration: G. Wilkinson, R. Lindner, E. Thomas and G. Corti. In addition we would like to recognize the valuable input from W-Y Song and W. Taylor of York University on HECO production processes. Computing support was provided by the GridPP Collaboration, in particular by the Queen Mary University of London and Liverpool grid sites. This work was supported by grant PP00P2_150583 of the Swiss NSF; by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, via the grants, ST/L000326/1, ST/L00044X/1, ST/N00101X/1, ST/P000258/1 and ST/T000759/1; by the Generalitat Valenciana via a special grant for MoEDAL and via the projects PROMETEO-II/2017/033 and PROMETEO/2019/087; by MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE via the grants, FPA2017-85985-P, FPA2017-84543-P and PGC2018-094856-B-I00; by the Physics Department of King{\textquoteright}s College London; by NSERC via a project grant; by the V-P Research of the University of Alberta (UofA); by the Provost of the UofA); by UEFISCDI (Romania); by the INFN (Italy); by the Estonian Research Council via a Mobilitas Plus grant MOBTT5; by a National Science Foundation grant (US) to the University of Alabama MoEDAL group; and, by the National Science Centre, Poland, under research grant 2017/26/E/ST2/00135 and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism for years 2014-2021, grant DEC-2019/34/H/ST2/00707. Funding Information: We thank CERN for the LHC{\textquoteright}s successful Run-1 operation, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom MoEDAL could not be operated. We acknowledge the invaluable assistance of particular members of the LHCb Collaboration: G. Wilkinson, R. Lindner, E. Thomas and G. Corti. In addition we would like to recognize the valuable input from W-Y Song and W. Taylor of York University on HECO production processes. Computing support was provided by the GridPP Collaboration, in particular by the Queen Mary University of London and Liverpool grid sites. This work was supported by grant PP00P2_150583 of the Swiss NSF; by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, via the grants, ST/L000326/1, ST/L00044X/1, ST/N00101X/1, ST/P000258/1 and ST/T000759/1; by the Generalitat Valenciana via a special grant for MoEDAL and via the projects PROMETEO-II/2017/033 and PROMETEO/2019/087; by MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE via the grants, FPA2017-85985-P, FPA2017-84543-P and PGC2018-094856-B-I00; by the Physics Department of King{\textquoteright}s College London; by NSERC via a project grant; by the V-P Research of the University of Alberta (UofA); by the Provost of the UofA); by UEFISCDI (Romania); by the INFN (Italy); by the Estonian Research Council via a Mobilitas Plus grant MOBTT5; by a National Science Foundation grant (US) to the University of Alabama MoEDAL group; and, by the National Science Centre, Poland, under research grant 2017/26/E/ST2/00135 and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism for years 2014-2021, grant DEC-2019/34/H/ST2/00707. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s).",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10608-2",
language = "English",
volume = "82",
journal = "European Physical Journal C",
issn = "1434-6044",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "8",
}