Magnetic monopole pair production in particle collisions

磁单极子，即带有磁电荷的粒子，是欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机(LHC)正在寻找的最有趣的假想基本粒子之一，该中心的MoEDAL实验就是专门为此目的而设计的。到目前为止，在间接或直接的搜索中还没有发现它们的直接证据，但有强有力的理论理由相信它们的存在，而且它们的质量可能低到足以让大型强子对撞机产生它们。然而，目前还没有一个有用的量子场理论来描述磁单极子，因此也没有关于它们产生截面的理论预测。这个项目的目的是发展和使用格子场理论模拟和其他非微扰技术来进行这一计算。学生将成为MoEDAL协作的成员，结果将用于分析来自实验的数据。

Magnetic monopoles, particles with magnetic charge, are among the most interesting hypothetical elementary particles that are being searched for with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where the MoEDAL experiment has been specifically designed for this purpose. No direct evidence of them has been found in indirect or direct searches so far, but there are strong theoretical reasons to believe that they exist, and their mass could be low enough to allow them to be produced at the LHC. However, there is currently no useful quantum field theory description of magnetic monopoles, and therefore there are no theoretical predictions of their production cross section. The aim of this project is to develop and use lattice field theory simulations and other non-perturbative techniques to carry out this computation. The student will become a member of the MoEDAL collaboration, and the results will be used in the analysis of the data from the experiment.