# Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 2.11 fb -1 of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC

@article{Acharya2017SearchFM,
title={Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 2.11 fb -1 of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC},
author={MoEDAL Collaboration B. Acharya and Jean Alexandre and Stephanie Baines and Petr Benes and Benedikt Bergmann and Jos'e Bernab'eu and Adrian Bevan and Horea Br{\^a}nzaş and M. Campbell and Laurenţiu I. Caramete and Stefano Cecchini and Marc de Montigny and A. De Roeck and John Ellis and Malcolm Fairbairn and D. Felea and Martin Frank and Dieter Frekers and C. Gar{\'c}ıa and J. M. Hays and Ann M. Hirt and Josef Jane{\vc}ek and D-W. Kim and Keisuke Kinoshita and Alexander Korzenev and Daniel Lacarr{\e}re and S. C. Lee and C. Leroy and Giuseppe Levi and A. L. Lionti and J. Mamuzic and Annarita Margiotta and Nicoletta Mauri and Nikolaos E. Mavromatos and P. Mermod and V. A. Mitsou and Risto Orava and I. V. Ostrovskiy and B. Parker and Laura Patrizii and G. E. Puavualacs and J. L. Pinfold and Vlad Popa and Michele Pozzato and Stanislav Posp{\'i}sil and Arttu Rajantie and R. Ruiz de Austri and Zouleikha Sahnoun and Mairi Sakellariadou and A. Santra and Sujit Sarkar and Gordon Walter Semenoff and Ameir Shaa and G. Sirri and K. Sliwa and Richard Andrew Soluk and Maurizio Spurio and Yogendra Srivastava and Michal Suk and John D. Swain and M. Tenti and V. Togo and J. A. Tuszy'nski and V Thatar Vento and O. Vives and Zdenek Vykydal and Allan Widom and Guido Alexander Willems and J. H. Yoon and Ion Sorin Zgură},
journal={Physics Letters B},
year={2017},
volume={782},
pages={510-516}
}`
Abstract We update our previous search for trapped magnetic monopoles in LHC Run 2 using nearly six times more integrated luminosity and including additional models for the interpretation of the data. The MoEDAL forward trapping detector, comprising 222 kg of aluminium samples, was exposed to 2.11 fb−1 of 13 TeV proton–proton collisions near the LHCb interaction point and analysed by searching for induced persistent currents after passage through a superconducting magnetometer. Magnetic charges… Expand

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