Abstract
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 2016. The considered signature is based upon high ionization in the transition radiation tracker of the inner detector associated with a pencil-shape energy deposit in the electromagnetic calorimeter. The data were collected by a dedicated trigger based on the tracker high-threshold hit capability. The results are interpreted in models of Drell-Yan pair production of stable particles with two spin hypotheses (0 and 1/2) and masses ranging from 200 to 4000 GeV. The search improves by approximately a factor of 5 the constraints on the direct production of magnetic monopoles carrying one or two Dirac magnetic charges and stable objects with electric charge in the range 20≤|z|≤60 and extends the charge range to 60<|z|≤100.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 031802 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 23 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; FWF, BMWFW, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq, FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, CFI, NRC, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, NSFC, MOST, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; VSC CR, MSMT CR, MPO CR, Czech Republic; DNSRC, DNRF, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; MPG, HGF, BMBF, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong China; Benoziyo Center, ISF, Israel; INFN, Italy; JSPS, MEXT, Japan; JINR; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW, NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; NRC KI, MES of Russia, Russia Federation; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS, MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC, Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; Cantons of Bern and Geneva, SNSF, SERI, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE, NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from CRC, Compute Canada, Canarie, BCKDF, Canada; Marie Skłodowska-Curie, COST, ERDF, ERC, Horizon 2020, European Union; ANR, Investissements d’Avenir Labex and Idex, France; AvH, DFG, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF, GIF, Israel; PROMETEO Programme Generalitat Valenciana, CERCA Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain; Leverhulme Trust, The Royal Society, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. .
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