Establishing limits for the monopole production in pp accelerators

Abstract

The spin 1/2 magnetic monopole pair production and the spin 0 monopolium production are studied in proton-proton collisions. For the pair production, the velocity-dependent coupling model and the additional effective coupling with a magnetic moment parameter are used for the calculation of photon fusion and Drell Yan cross sections. Since the monopole mass is unknown, the mass range employed is based on the last results of ATLAS and the MoEDAL experiment, which set a minimal value of around 2 TeV. The cross sections are calculated for the center of mass energies of the LHC, for its successor, the HE-LHC and for the future collider FCC. As a result, the estimated mass limits for observation in LHC and the other accelerators are obtained and the advantages in using both effective couplings and the monopolium as an indirect measure are discussed.