Proposal to Search for Magnetically Charged Particles with Magnetic Charge 1e

TL;DR

This paper proposes a search for magnetically charged particles with charge 1e, called magneticons, predicted by a model involving magnetically bound vorton pairs, and discusses how to detect them at colliders like the LHC.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of magneticons, models their detection in the ATLAS detector, and suggests a new search strategy for low-charged magnetic monopoles at colliders.

Findings

Model predicts a family of magnetically charged particles including magneticons.

Simulation shows how magneticons would appear in the ATLAS detector.

Proposes a search method for magneticons using existing collider data.

Abstract

A model for composite elementary Standard Model (SM) particles based upon magnetically bound vorton pairs, briefly introduced here, predicts the existence of a complete family of magnetically charged particles, as well as their neutral isotopic partners (all counterparts to the SM elementary particles), in which the lowest mass (charged) particle would be an electrically neutral stable lepton, but which carries a magnetic charge equivalent to 1e. This new particle, which we call a magneticon (a counterpart to the electron) would be pair produced at all e+e- colliders at an Ecm above twice its mass. In addition, PP and PPbar colliders should also be able to produce these new particles through the Drell-Yan process. To our knowledge, no monopole search experiment has been sensitive to such a low-charged magnetic monopole above a particle mass of about 5 GeV/c2. Hence, we propose that a search for such a stable particle of magnetic charge 1e should be undertaken. We have taken the ATLAS detector at the LHC as an example in which this search might be done. To this end, we have modeled the magnetic fields and muon trigger chambers of this detector. We show results from a simple Monte Carlo simulation program to indicate how these particles might look in the detector and describe how one might search for these new particles in the ATLAS data stream.