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MoEDAL-MAPP, an LHC Dedicated Detector Search Facility

James Pinfold
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During LHC's Run-2 the MoEDAL experiment, the LHC's first dedicated search experiment, took over 6 fb^-1 of data at IP8, with p-p and Pb-Pb collisions, operating with 100% efficiency. The LHCC has endorsed the LoI of the MoEDAL Collaboration describing an exciting program to expand the search for Highly Ionizing Particles (HIPs) in p-p and heavy-ion collisions to include feebly ionizing and Long Lived Particle (LLP) messengers of new physics (NP) at LHC's RUN-3 and eventually HL-LHC. In 2021, as part of Phase-1 of the program, the baseline MoEDAL detector was approved by CERN for reinstallation for Run-3 with increased efficiency, lower threshold, a factor of 5 increase in instantaneous luminosity, and, a higher Ecm. MoEDAL will continue the search for HIP avatars of NP with an emphasis on the search for massive, single and multiply electrically charged avatars of BSM physics arising from, eg, supersymmetry, neutrino mass models, L-R symmetry, etc. As part of Phase-1 of the MoEDAL-MAPP project CERN also approved in 2021 the installation of the MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles (MAPP) in the UA83 tunnel 100m away from IP8. The MAPP detector has sensitivity to feebly-interacting particles with charge, or effective charge, as low as 10^-3e. Additionally, the MAPP detector, in conjunction with MoEDAL's trapping detector, gives us a unique sensitivity to charged LLPs. MAPP also has some sensitivity to neutral LLPs. In Phase-2 of the project we will instal the MAPP-2 upgrade for the HL-LHC. We envisage that this detector will be deployed in the UGC1 gallery near to IP8. This phase of the experiment is designed to ensure that MoEDAL-MAPP's sensitivity to neutral LLP messengers of BSM physics is competitive and complementary to other planned projects in this arena. Initial MoEDAL plans for the MEDICI facility at the 100 TeV FCC-hh machine will also be briefly presented.

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James Pinfold. 2022-09-08. MoEDAL-MAPP, an LHC Dedicated Detector Search Facility. https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03988

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