Abstract
The MoEDAL experiment (Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC) is designed to directly search for magnetic monopoles and other highly-ionising stable or metastable particles arising in theoretical scenarios beyond the Standard Model. Its physics goals are accomplished by the deployment of plastic nuclear track detectors combined with trapping volumes for capturing charged highly-ionising particles and TimePix pixel devices for monitoring. This paper is an overview of the MoEDAL physics reach, which is largely complementary to the programs of the large multi-purpose LHC detectors ATLAS and CMS.
Highlights
MoEDAL (Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC) [1,2,3], the 7th experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [4], was approved by the CERN Research Board in 2010
In the coannihilation region of the constrained MSSM (CMSSM), the lighter τ1 is expected to be the lightest slepton [28], and the τ1 − χ01 mass difference may well be smaller than mτ: this is required at large lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) masses
In the same way as stop hadrons, gluino hadrons may flip charge through conventional strong interactions as they pass through matter, and it is possible that one may pass through most of a conventional LHC tracking detector undetected in a neutral state before converting into a metastable charged state that could be detected by MoEDAL
Summary
MoEDAL (Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC) [1,2,3], the 7th experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [4], was approved by the CERN Research Board in 2010. The experiment is designed to search for any massive, stable or long-lived, slow-moving particles [6] with single or multiple electric charges arising in many scenarios of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). The physics reach of MoEDAL as far as magnetic monopoles and monopolia is discussed, whilst Section 4 is dedicated to supersymmetric models predicting massive (meta)stable states.
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