# The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC: status and results

## TL;DR

The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC searches for highly ionising particles like magnetic monopoles and charged massive particles, providing world-leading limits and complementing other LHC experiments with its unique detection methods.

## Contribution

This paper reports on the status and recent results of MoEDAL, highlighting its unique detector design and the setting of the world's best limits on magnetic monopoles at 13 TeV.

## Key findings

- Null results set new world-best limits on magnetic monopoles
- Detection of electrically charged particles with high ionisation
- Complementary physics reach to ATLAS and CMS

## Abstract

The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC is optimised to detect highly ionising particles such as magnetic monopoles, dyons and (multiply) electrically charged stable massive particles predicted in a number of theoretical scenarios. MoEDAL, deployed in the LHCb cavern, combines passive nuclear track detectors with magnetic monopole trapping volumes (MMTs), while spallation-product backgrounds are being monitored with an array of MediPix pixel detectors. An introduction to the detector concept and its physics reach, complementary to that of the large general purpose LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS, will be given. Emphasis is given to the recent MoEDAL results at 13 TeV, where the null results from a search for magnetic monopoles in MMTs exposed in 2015 LHC collisions set the world-best limits on particles with magnetic charges more than 1.5 Dirac charge. The potential to search for heavy, long-lived supersymmetric electrically-charged particles is also discussed.