Speaker
Description
MoEDAL (Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC) is the 7th experi-
ment, specifically dedicated to investigating beyond the Standard Model sce-
narios by searching for highly ionizing particles, such as magnetic monopoles
or massive pseudo-stable charged particles and multiply electrically charged
particles as messengers of new physics. Sharing the same interaction point as
the LHCb experiment, MoEDAL is complementary to the larger ATLAS and
CMS experiments, thereby expanding the discovery reach of the LHC. This
largely passive detector is comprised of the following subdetectors: A large
array of NTD (Nuclear Track Detector) stacks, a magnetic trapping detector
(designed to trap both electrically and magnetically charged highly ionizing
particles), and a TimePix chip array that monitors particle backgrounds.
MAPP (MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles), a new MoEDAL
subdetector, is currently being prototyped. The aim of MAPP is to enable
MoEDAL to search for fractionally charged particles as well as long-lived
neutrals. The goal of this poster is to summarize the growing physics pro-
grammes of MoEDAL and MAPP, introduce the detection methods used,
and present MoEDAL’s latest results.
