MoEDAL-MAPP - Detectors specialised for LLP searches

Abstract

The unprecedented collision energy of the LHC has opened up a new discovery regime. The first LHC dedicated search experiment, MoEDAL, has inaugurated searches optimised for longlived particles. MoEDAL is designed to search highly ionising avatars of new physics using proton and heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. The upgrade for MoEDAL at Run 3 -the MAPP detector (MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles) -will extend the physics reach to include feebly interacting, long-lived messengers of physics beyond the Standard Model. This will allow the exploration of a number of models of new physics, including dark sector models, in a complementary way to that of the main LHC detectors. This paper focuses on physics results, current status and plans for the Run 3 and beyond.