Shining light on magnetic monopoles through high-energy muon colliders

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential of future high-energy muon colliders to detect electroweak monopoles, which are currently beyond reach of existing experiments, by analyzing their production via muon annihilation.

Contribution

It proposes using high-energy muon colliders as a novel approach to search for magnetic monopoles predicted at around 10 TeV mass scale.

Findings

Magnetic monopoles could be produced at future muon colliders.

High-energy muon colliders offer a promising platform for monopole detection.

The paper outlines a method for monopole search via muon annihilation.

Abstract

The search for magnetic monopoles has been a longstanding concern of the physics community for nearly a century. However, up to now, the existence of elementary magnetic monopoles remains an open question. The electroweak 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles have been predicted with mass at the order of 10 TeV. This mass scale is unreachable at current colliders. Recently, the muon colliders have gained much attention in the community due to technological developments. The advantages of the muon beam encourage us to raise the high-energy option and consider the high-energy muon collider as a unique opportunity to search for magnetic monopoles. This letter discusses the production of magnetic monopoles via the annihilation process and proposes the search for magnetic monopoles at future high-energy muon colliders.