Estados ligados de monopolos magnéticos em colisões de alta energia

Abstract

This work presents the studies carried out for the production of the monopolium at the LHC in ultraperipheral collisions for the processes pp and P bP b. The monopolium is described by the bound state of a monopole-antimonopole pair, and we assume the study of the monopole in this characteristic state because its coupling constant is very large, which opens space to suggest the idea that this exotic particle can be produced in its bound state. The bound state of the pair is defined by a wave function arising from the numerical solution of the Schrodinger equation for the modified Cornell potential. The study of monopoles began with Dirac, where he established a relationship between electric and magnetic charges. There are no experimental results that prove the existence of this particle, but the LHC allows us to search for highly ionizing particles, as in the case of the monopole. We used the photon fusion production mechanism, where the WeizsackerWilliams method was considered to describe the equivalent photon number of the proton and lead, in addition the Drees-Zeppenfeld method was considered to calculate the number of equivalent photons of the proton considering an electric dipole form factor. We estimate the LHC monopolium production for pp collisions with √ s = 14 TeV and P bP b collisions with √s = 5.5 TeV.