Title: The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC: status and results,
Abstract: The MoEDAL experiment at the LHC is optimised to detect highly ionising
particles such as magnetic monopoles, dyons and (multiply) electrically charged
stable massive particles predicted in a number of theoretical scenarios.
MoEDAL, deployed in the LHCb cavern, combines passive nuclear track detectors
with magnetic monopole trapping volumes (MMTs), while spallation-product
backgrounds are being monitored with an array of MediPix pixel detectors. An
introduction to the detector concept and its physics reach, complementary to
that of the large general purpose LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS, will be given.
Emphasis is given to the recent MoEDAL results at 13 TeV, where the null
results from a search for magnetic monopoles in MMTs exposed in 2015 LHC
collisions set the world-best limits on particles with magnetic charges more
than 1.5 Dirac charge. The potential to search for heavy, long-lived
supersymmetric electrically-charged particles is also discussed.