https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2212-x
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Development of a magnetometer-based search strategy for stopped monopoles at the Large Hadron Collider
1
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
2
Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
3
Department of Physics, UC-Davis, Davis, USA
4
Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
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Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpuculaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Fysikum, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
* e-mail: philippe.mermod@cern.ch
** e-mail: milstead@physto.se
Received:
28
June
2012
Revised:
21
September
2012
Published online:
14
December
2012
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.
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and Società Italiana di Fisica, 2012
