Speaker
Description
The MoEDAL detector, deployed at IP8 in 2010, was the LHC’s first dedicated search experiment. MoEDAL is designed to detect Highly Ionizing Particle avatars of BSM physics without requiring a restrictive trigger. MoEDAL’s MAPP-1 (MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles) is currently being installed in UA83 adjacent to IP8 on the LHC ring MAPP-1’s purpose is to extend the reach of the MoEDAL experiment to include sensitivity to Feebly Ionizing Particles (FIPs) such as milli-charged particles. MAPP-1 combined with MoEDAL trapping detectors also has an unprecedented sensitivity to extremely long-lived massive charged particles. Additionally, MAPP-1 has some sensitivity to very long-lived neutral particles. The LHCC has also endorsed MoEDAL’s NoI to install the MAPP-2 detector for data taking at the High Luminosity LHC. MAPP-2 will greatly extend MoEDAL-MAPP’s reach in the search for LLPs. The reach of MAPP-2 is complementary to other planned LLP detectors and the existing LHC general-purpose detectors. In this talk, the MoEDAL-MAPP project for the LHC that includes competitive sensitivity to HIP, FIPs and LLPs, without relying on hardware triggers, will be described.
