Recent Results and Future Plans of the MoEDAL Experiment

TL;DR

The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC searches for magnetic monopoles and exotic particles, providing new results and plans to explore fundamental questions in physics beyond the Standard Model.

Contribution

This paper summarizes MoEDAL's recent results on magnetic monopoles and outlines future plans including the installation of new detection subdetectors.

Findings

Latest results on magnetic monopole production at the LHC

Deployment of new subdetectors for detecting penetrating particles

Over 40 theoretical scenarios explored for new physics

Abstract

The Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC (MoEDAL) is a pioneering LHC experiment designed to search for anomalously ionizing messengers of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles. These are predicted to exist in a plethora of models beyond the Standard Model. Deployed at Interaction Point 8 (IP8) along the LHC ring, MoEDAL has taken data at centre-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV. Its ground breaking physics program defines over 40 scenarios that yield potentially revolutionary insights into such foundational questions as: are there extra dimensions or new symmetries; what is the mechanism for the generation of mass; does magnetic charge exist; and what is the nature of dark matter? MoEDAL's purpose is to meet such far-reaching challenges at the frontier of the field. We present a summary of the MoEDAL detector and its latest results on magnetic monopole production at the LHC. Afterwards, progress on the physics program & installation of MoEDAL's Apparatus for the detection of Penetrating Particles (MAPP) subdetector will be discussed.