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Recent ATLAS results on exclusive dielectron and dimuon production in Pb+Pb UPC collisions

Relativistic heavy-ion beams at the LHC are accompanied by a large flux of equivalent photons. In ultrapripheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs), electromagnetic interactions become dominant. One of the most fundamental processes, originating from the photon-photon interactions, is the exclusive product...

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Autor principal: Ogrodnik, Agnieszka Ewa
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2834345
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Sumario:Relativistic heavy-ion beams at the LHC are accompanied by a large flux of equivalent photons. In ultrapripheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs), electromagnetic interactions become dominant. One of the most fundamental processes, originating from the photon-photon interactions, is the exclusive production of lepton pairs, $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\ell^{+}\ell^{-}$. Given the large theoretical uncertainty of photon flux modelling, its precise measurement with exclusive dilepton pairs can improve predictions for other photoproduction processes. The recent ATLAS measurements of $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ process using 2015 Pb+Pb data and $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$ process using 2018 Pb+Pb data are presented.