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Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at sNN=5.36 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

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Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at sNN=5.36 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Physical review letters, Vol. 134, No. 6, 061803, 14.02.2025.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2025, 'Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at sNN=5.36 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC', Physical review letters, vol. 134, no. 6, 061803. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.061803

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The ATLAS collaboration (2025). Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at sNN=5.36 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. Physical review letters, 134(6), Article 061803. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.061803

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The ATLAS collaboration. Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at sNN=5.36 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. Physical review letters. 2025 Feb 14;134(6):061803. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.134.061803

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at sNN=5.36 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. In: Physical review letters. 2025 ; Vol. 134, No. 6.

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title = "Search for Magnetic Monopole Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at sNN=5.36 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC",
abstract = "This Letter presents a search for highly ionizing magnetic monopoles in 262 {\^I}¼b{\^a}ˆ{\textquoteright}1 of ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collision data at sNN=5.36 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A new methodology that exploits the properties of clusters of hits reconstructed in the innermost silicon detector layers is introduced to study highly ionizing particles in heavy-ion data. No significant excess above the background, which is estimated using a data-driven technique, is observed. Using a nonperturbative semiclassical model, upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the cross section for pair production of monopoles with a single Dirac magnetic charge in the mass range of 20{\^a}€“150 GeV. Depending on the model, monopoles with a single Dirac magnetic charge and mass below 80{\^a}€“120 GeV are excluded. ",
author = "{The ATLAS collaboration} and Hanadi Ali and Zainab Alsolami and A.E. Barton and G. Borissov and E.V. Bouhova-Thacker and Ruby Ferguson and James Ferrando and H. Fox and Alina Hagan and R.C.W. Henderson and R.W.L. Jones and V. Kartvelishvili and P.A. Love and E.J. Marshall and L. Meng and D. Muenstermann and Elliot Sampson and M. Smizanska and A.M. Wharton",
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AU - Barton, A.E.

AU - Borissov, G.

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, E.V.

AU - Ferguson, Ruby

AU - Ferrando, James

AU - Fox, H.

AU - Hagan, Alina

AU - Henderson, R.C.W.

AU - Jones, R.W.L.

AU - Kartvelishvili, V.

AU - Love, P.A.

AU - Marshall, E.J.

AU - Meng, L.

AU - Muenstermann, D.

AU - Sampson, Elliot

AU - Smizanska, M.

AU - Wharton, A.M.

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