Looking for magnetic monopoles at LHC.

LUIS N. EPELE, HUNER FANCHIOTTI, CARLOS A.GARCIA CANAL, VASILIKI A. MITSOU, VICENTE VENTO

Otro; inSPIRES arXiv:1104.0218 [hep-ph]; 2011

Magnetic monopoles have been a subject of interest since Dirac established the relation between the existence of monopoles and charge quantization. The intense experimental search carried thus far has not met with success. We study the observability of monopoles at the Large Hadron collider in the photon-photon channel and show that LHC is an ideal machine to discover monopoles with masses below 1 TeV at present running energies and with less than 1 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity.