Abstract
MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionising messengers of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles, that are predicted to exist in a plethora of models beyond the Standard Model. Its ground-breaking physics program defines a number of scenarios that yield potentially revolutionary insights into such foundational questions as: are there extra dimensions or new symmetries; what is the mechanism for the generation of mass; does magnetic charge exist; what is the nature of dark matter; and, how did the big-bang develop at the earliest times. MoEDAL's purpose is to meet such far-reaching challenges at the frontier of the field. In conclusion we will briefly report on current results; discuss plans to instal a new detector designed to search for very long-lived neutral particles as well as mini-charged particles; and, briefly delineate plans for an astroparticle extension of MoEDAL called Cosmic-MoEDAL.
Highlights
MoEDAL, the 7th and newest experiment [1] is dedicated to the detection of the highly ionizing particle avatars of new physics such as the magnetic monopole and massive stable or metastable charged particles
Over the past year MoEDAL experimenters have completed the design of two new detectors systems: the Magnetic Monopole Trapping (MMT) detectors for capturing magnetic monopole and other massive highly ionizing particles; the high threshold Very High Charge Catcher – comprised of flexible low mass Nuclear Track Detector (NTD) detectors
A comparison of the reach of the MoEDAL detector for magnetic and electric charge compared with the general purpose Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments ATLAS and CMS is shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6, respectively [6]
Summary
MoEDAL, the 7th and newest experiment [1] is dedicated to the detection of the highly ionizing particle avatars of new physics such as the magnetic monopole and massive stable or metastable charged particles. The MoEDAL experiment will start to take data in the Spring of 2015 when the LHC restarts at the unprecedented centre-of-mass energy of ~14 TeV.
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