Magnetic monopoles at the LHC and in the Cosmos

Understand

The magnetic monopole was postulated in 1931 by Dirac to explain electric charge quantisation.

• Searches for pair-produced monopoles are performed at accelerator facilities whenever a new energy regime is made available.
• In addition, monopoles with masses too high to be accessible at colliders would still have been produced in the early Universe and such relics can be searched for either in flight or trapped in matter.
• Here we discuss recent results and future prospects for direct monopole detection at the LHC and in bulk matter searches, with emphasis on the complementarity between the various techniques.