Abstract

The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are able to discover or set limits on the production of exotic particles with TeV-scale masses possessing values of electric and/or magnetic charge such that they behave as highly ionising particles (HIPs). In this paper the sensitivity of the LHC experiments to HIP production is discussed in detail. It is shown that a number of different detection methods are required to investigate as fully as possible the charge-mass range. These include direct detection as the HIPs pass through either passive or active detectors and, in the case of magnetically charged objects, the so-called induction method with which magnetic monopoles which stop in accelerator and detector material could be observed. The benefit of using complementary approaches to HIP detection is discussed.

Details

Title
Sensitivity of LHC experiments to exotic highly ionising particles
Author
De Roeck, A 1 ; Katre, A 2 ; Mermod, P 3 ; Milstead, D 4 ; Sloan, T 5 

 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Physics, UC-Davis, Davis, USA 
 Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpuculaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 
 Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpuculaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
 Fysikum, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 
 Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK 
Pages
1-18
Publication year
2012
Publication date
Apr 2012
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
14346044
e-ISSN
14346052
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2294183862
Copyright
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