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Observing light-by-light scattering at the Large Hadron Collider
Elastic light-by-light scattering (gamma-gamma-->gamma-gamma) can be observed at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large quasi-real photon fluxes available in electromagnetic interactions of protons (p) and lead (Pb) ions. The gamma-gamma-->gamma-gamma cross sections for diphoton masses...
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.080405 https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.129901 http://cds.cern.ch/record/1552161 |
Sumario: | Elastic light-by-light scattering (gamma-gamma-->gamma-gamma) can be observed at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large quasi-real photon fluxes available in electromagnetic interactions of protons (p) and lead (Pb) ions. The gamma-gamma-->gamma-gamma cross sections for diphoton masses m_gammagamma > 5 GeV amount to 12 fb, 26 pb, and 35 nb in p-p, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies sqrt(s_NN) = 14 TeV, 8.8 TeV, and 5.5 TeV respectively. Such a measurement has no substantial backgrounds in Pb-Pb collisions where one expects about 20 signal events per run, after typical detector acceptance and reconstruction efficiency selections. |
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