Author(s): Acharya B; Alexandre J; Behera SC; Benes P; Bergmann B; Bertolucci S; Bevan A; Brancaccio R; Branzas H; Burian P; Campbell M; Cecchini S; Cho YM; de Montigny M; De Roeck A; Ellis JR; Fairbairn M; Felea D; Frank M; Gould O; Hays J; Hirt A ...

We report on a search for magnetic monopoles (MMs) produced in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions during Run 1 of the LHC. The beam pipe surrounding the interaction region of the CMS experiment was exposed to 184.07 µb^{-1} of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV center-of-mass energy per collision in Dece ...

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Author(s): Acharya B; Alexandre J; Benes P; Bergmann B; Bertolucci S; Bevan A; Branzas H; Burian P; Campbell M; Cho YM; de Montigny M; De Roeck A; Ellis JR; Sawy ME; Fairbairn M; Felea D; Frank M; Gould O; Hays J; Hirt AM; Ho DL; Hung PQ; Janecek J ...

Electrically charged particles can be created by the decay of strong enough electric fields, a phenomenon known as the Schwinger mechanism1. By electromagnetic duality, a sufficiently strong magnetic field would similarly produce magnetic monopoles, if they exist2. Magnetic monopoles are hypothet ...

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