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20/09/2012
16h30 Sala F-210 Huner Fanchiotti Universidad Nacional de La Plata Looking for magnetic monopoles at LHC with diphoton events (.ppt) Magnetic monopoles have been a subject of interest since
Dirac
established the relation between the existence of monopoles and
charge
quantization. The intense experimental search carried thus far
has not met with
success. The Large Hadron Collider is reaching energies never
achieved before
allowing the search for exotic particles in the TeV mass range.
In a continuing
effort to discover these rare particles we propose here other
ways to detect
them. We study the observability of monopoles and monopolium, a
monopole-antimonopole bound state, at the Large Hadron Collider
in the gamma
gamma channel for monopole masses in the range 500-1000 GeV. We
conclude that
LHC is an ideal machine to discover monopoles with masses below
1 TeV at
present running energies and with 5 fb(-1) of integrated
luminosity.
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