Vasiliki A. Mitsou for the MoEDAL Collabora1on Interna2onal Conference on Exo2c Atoms and Related Topics 11-15 September 2017, Vienna, Austria
2 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou MoEDAL at LHC Interna2onal collabora2on ~70 physicists from Monopole & Exo2cs Detector At LHC ~20 par2cipa2ng ins2tu2ons UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA INFN & UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA CERN UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY GANGNEUNG-WONJU NATIONAL UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON Point 8 KING'S COLLEGE LONDON KONKUK UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INSTITUTE FOR SPACE SCIENCES, ROMANIA STAR INSTITUTE, SIMON LANGTON SCHOOL TUFT'S UNIVERSITY IFIC VALENCIA
3 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou Key feature: high ionisa2on charge = z/β velocity: β = v/c Electric charge Bethe-Bloch formula High ionisa^on (HI) possible when: MoEDAL detectors have a threshold of z / β ~ 5 – 10 ▫ mul^ple electric charge (H ++ , Q-balls, etc.) = n × e ▫ very low velocity & electric charge, i.e. Stable Massive Charged Par^cles (SMCPs) ▫ magne^c charge (monopoles, dyons) = ng D = n × 68.5 × e � a singly charged rela^vis^c monopole has ionisa^on ~4700 ^mes MIP!! ▫ any combina^on of the above Magne2c charge Ahlen formula Par2cles must be massive , long-lived & highly ionising to be detected at MoEDAL
4 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou MoEDAL sensi^vity Cross-sec^on limits for magne^c and electric charge assuming that: ▫ ~ one MoEDAL event is required for discovery and ~100 events in the other LHC detectors ▫ integrated luminosi^es correspond to about two years of 14 TeV run De Roeck, Katre, Mermod, Milstead, Sloan, EPJC72 (2012) 1985 [arXiv:1112.2999] MoEDAL offers robustness against ^ming and well-es^mated signal efficiency
5 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou MoEDAL physics programme Searching for Magne^c monopoles massive , SUSY KK extra long-lived & R-hadrons dimensions sleptons highly ionising par2cles Highly Doubly ionising charged D-maqer Higgs par^cles Black-hole Quirks remnants MoEDAL physics program Int. J. Mod. Phys. A29 (2014) Q-balls 1430050 [arXiv:1405.7662]
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7 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou MoEDAL detector DETECTOR SYSTEMS LHCb MoEDAL ① Low-threshold NTD ( LT-NTD ) array • z/β > ~5 – 10 ② Very High Charge Catcher NTD ( HCC-NTD ) array • z/β > ~50 ③ TimePix radia^on background monitor ④ Monopole Trapping MoEDAL is unlike any other LHC experiment: detector ( MMT ) ▫ mostly passive detectors ; no trigger; no readout ▫ the largest deployment of passive Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) at an accelerator ▫ the 1 st ^me trapping detectors are deployed as a detector
8 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou 1 ️ ⃣ & 2 ️ ⃣ HI par^cle detec^on in NTDs • Passage of a highly ionising par^cle through the plas^c NTD marked by an invisible damage zone ( “latent track” ) along the trajectory • The damage zone is revealed as a cone-shaped etch-pit when the plas^c sheet is chemically etched • Plas^c sheets are later scanned to detect etch-pits Looking for aligned etch pits in mul^ple sheets
9 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou 1 ️ ⃣ & 2 ️ ⃣ NTDs deployment 2012: LT-NTD NTDs sheets kept in boxes mounted onto LHCb VELO cavern walls 2015-2016: LT-NTD Top of VELO cover Closest possible loca^on to IP 2015-2016: HCC-NTD Installed in LHCb acceptance between RICH1 and TT
10 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou 3 ️ ⃣ TimePix radia^on monitor • Timepix (MediPix) chips used to measure online the radia^on field and monitor spalla^on product background • Essen^ally act as liqle electronic “bubble-chambers” • The only ac^ve element in MoEDAL 2015 deployment of MediPix chips in MoEDAL • 256×256 pixel solid state detector • 14×14 mm ac^ve area • amplifier + comparator + counter + ^mer Sample calibrated frame in MoEDAL TPX04
11 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou 4 ️ ⃣ MMT: Magne^c Monopole Trapper • Binding energy of monopoles in nuclei with finite magne^c dipole moments: O (100 keV) • MMTs analysed with superconduc^ng quantum interference device (SQUID) • Material: Aluminium ▫ large nuclear dipole moment ▫ rela^vely cheap • Persistent current: difference between resul^ng current a•er and before ▫ first subtract current measurement for empty holder ▫ if other than zero → monopole signature Typical sample & pseudo-monopole curves
12 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou MMTs deployment 2015-2016 • Installed in addi^onal 2012 loca^ons: sides A & C, too 11 boxes each containing 18 Al rods of • Approximately 800 kg of Al 60 cm length and 2.54 cm diameter ( 160 kg ) • Total 2400 aluminum bars
13 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou • @ 8 TeV JHEP 1608 (2016) 067 [arXiv:1604.06645] • @ 13 TeV Phys.Rev.Leq. 118 (2017) 061801 [arXiv:1611.06817]
14 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou Magne^c monopoles • Mo^va^on ▫ symmetrisa^on of Maxwell’s eqs. ▫ electric charge quan^sa^on • Proper^es ▫ magne^c charge = ng = n×68.5e ▫ coupling constant = g/Ћc ~34 ▫ spin and mass not predicted HIGHLY IONISING Produc2on mechanisms in colliders Drell Yan mechanism Photon fusion Box diagram MoEDAL improves reach of monopole searches w.r.t. cross sec^on & charge
15 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou MMT2015: scanning Detector: prototype of 222 kg of aluminium bars Exposure: 0.371 ` -1 of 13 TeV • Analysed with SQUID at ETH Zürich pp collisions during 2015 • Excellent charge resolu^on (< 0.1 g D ) except for outliers Persistent current after first passage for all samples Persistent current for multiple measurements of candidates PRL 118 (2017) 061801 [arXiv:1611.06817] No monopole with charge > 0.5 g D observed in MMT samples at 99.5% CL
16 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou MMT2015: analysis Geometry Kinema^cs Propaga^on in maqer Material descrip^on between IP & detector Event genera^on of Drell Yan produc^on • Ahlen formula coupling ⪼ 1 ⇒ non-perturba^ve! • Monopole energy loss • Stopping range 9000 2000 [GeV] MoEDAL Simulation 1800 8000 DY spin-1/2, m = 1000 GeV kin 1600 Z 7000 E 1400 6000 1200 5000 1000 4000 800 3000 600 2000 400 1000 200 0 0 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3 � [rad] arXiv:1606.01220 JHEP 1608 (2016) 067
17 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou MMT2015: results PRL 118 (2017) 061801 Detector: prototype of 222 kg of aluminium bars [arXiv:1611.06817] Exposure: 0.371 ` -1 of 13 TeV pp collisions during 2015 DY spin-1/2 DY spin-0 • First monopole searches at 13 TeV at LHC • First limits for magne^c charge of 5 g D and masses > 3.5 TeV
18 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou Monopole mass limits PRL 118 (2017) 061801 [arXiv:1611.06817] • Mass limits are highly model-dependent ▫ Drell-Yan produc^on does not take into account non- perturba^ve nature of the large monopole-photon coupling • Exclude low masses for |g| = 4g D for the first ^me at LHC • World-best collider limits for |g| ≥ 2 g D DY lower mass limits |g| = g D |g| = 2g D |g| = 3g D |g| = 4g D [GeV] spin ½ 890 1250 1260 1100 MoEDAL 13 TeV spin 0 460 760 800 650 spin ½ 700 920 840 — MoEDAL 8 TeV spin 0 420 600 560 — spin ½ 1340 — — — ATLAS 8 TeV spin 0 1050 — — —
19 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou • What about electrically -charged par^cles?
20 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou Why MoEDAL when searching SMCPs? • ATLAS and CMS triggers have to ▫ rely on other “objects”, e.g. E T miss , that accompany SMCPs, thus limi^ng the reach of the search � final states with associated object present � trigger threshold set high for high luminosity ▫ develop specialised triggers � dedicated studies needed � usually efficiency significantly less than 100% • Timing: signal from (slow-moving) SMCP should arrive within the correct bunch crossing • MoEDAL mainly constrained by its geometrical acceptance • When looking for trapped par^cles ▫ monitoring of detector volumes in an underground/basement laboratory has less background than using empty butches in LHC cavern
21 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou Slepton searches comparison* * Indica^ve numbers ATLAS / CMS MoEDAL comments Velocity β > 0.2 β < 0.2 Complementarity 😁 Constrained by LHC bunch Constrained by NTD Z/β paqern threshold Analysis Not simple, involving several Simple and robust 😋 detector components, electronics, triggers, … 😑 Efficiency ~ 100% (if β ≲ 0.2) ε × A order of 20% Acceptance Geometry: ~ 50% for 2015; • See limitaEons in previous scalable to higher coverage slide β-cut yield: ~10% • ☞ highly model dependent Background May be considerable or Prac^cally zero For same signal yield, difficult to es^mate MoEDAL should have beqer sensi^vity 😋 Luminosity high factor of 10-50 less LIMITING FACTOR 😖
22 EXA2017 V.A. Mitsou Nuclear Track Detectors coverage • High acceptance in central region η~0 ▫ back-to-back pair produc^on means probability >~ 70% for at least one SMCP to hit NTD • For par^cles over z/β threshold, detec^on efficiency prac^cally 100% 2015 NTDs Credit: Daniel Felea
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