Speaker
Arttu Rajantie
(Imperial College London)
Description
If magnetic monopoles exist, they are produced in strong magnetic fields by the electromagnetic dual of the Schwinger pair creation process. This phenomenon can be described non-perturbatively using the worldline instanton approach, and therefore it avoids the problems the strength of the magnetic charge required by the Dirac quantisation condition poses to any perturbative calculations. I present a calculation of the production probability of monopoles for ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, and the monopole mass bounds obtained by the MoEDAL experiment based on it.
Author
Arttu Rajantie
(Imperial College London)
