MoEDAL experiment

MoEDAL also has approximately 800 kg of aluminium bars placed around the interaction point, that can trap stable massive particles for later study.

Passing these bars through a SQUID magnetometer yields a sensitive test for the presence of magnetic monopoles.

It is the seventh experiment at the LHC, was approved and sanctioned by the CERN research board in May 2010, and started its first test deployment in January 2011.

A new detector was installed in 2015,[6] but as of 2017 it also did not find any magnetic monopoles, setting new limits on their production cross section.

[8] The absence of a positive signal implies direct lower bounds on the mass of possible magnetic monopoles.

MoEDAL experiment in LHC IP8 at CERN