Speaker
James Pinfold
(University of Alberta)
Description
In 2010 the MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was unanimously approved as the LHC’s 7th experiment experiment by CERN’s Research Board, to start data taking in 2015. MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing messengers of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles. Its ground-breaking physics program defines a number of scenarios that yield potentially revolutionary insights into such foundational questions as: are there extra dimensions or new symmetries; what is the mechanism for the generation of mass; does magnetic charge exist; what is the nature of dark matter; and, how did the big-bang develop. MoEDAL’s purpose is to meet such far-reaching challenges at the frontier of the field. The innovative MoEDAL detector - that was installed for the first time in the winter of 2014-15 - employs unconventional detector methodologies tuned to the prospect of discovery physics. The largely passive MoEDAL detector, deployed at Point 8 on the LHC ring, has a dual nature. The first results from MoEDAL test deployments will be presented.
Primary author
James Pinfold
(University of Alberta)
