Development of a magnetometer-based search strategy for stopped monopoles at the Large Hadron Collider

TY - JOUR

T1 - Development of a magnetometer-based search strategy for stopped monopoles at the Large Hadron Collider

AU - De Roeck, A.

AU - Hächler, H.-P

AU - Hirt, A.M.

AU - Jørgensen, Morten Dam

AU - Katre, A.

AU - Mermod, P.

AU - Milstead, D.

AU - Sloan, T.

PY - 2012/12/14

Y1 - 2012/12/14

N2 - If produced in high energy particle collisions at the LHC, magnetic monopoles could stop in material surrounding the interaction points. Obsolete parts of the beam pipe near the CMS interaction region, which were exposed to the products of pp and heavy ion collisions, were analysed using a SQUID-based magnetometer. The purpose of this work is to quantify the performance of the magnetometer in the context of a monopole search using a small set of samples of accelerator material ahead of the 2013 shutdown.

AB - If produced in high energy particle collisions at the LHC, magnetic monopoles could stop in material surrounding the interaction points. Obsolete parts of the beam pipe near the CMS interaction region, which were exposed to the products of pp and heavy ion collisions, were analysed using a SQUID-based magnetometer. The purpose of this work is to quantify the performance of the magnetometer in the context of a monopole search using a small set of samples of accelerator material ahead of the 2013 shutdown.

U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2212-x

DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2212-x

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1434-6044

VL - 72

SP - 2212

JO - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields

JF - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields

IS - 12

ER -