Measurement of light-by-light scattering and the Breit-Wheeler process, and search for axion-like particles in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV
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Prof. Dr. Hasan OĞUL Sinop Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Journal of High Energy Physics (Q1)
Dergi ISSN 1029-8479 Dergi Bilgileri (2025)
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 08-2025
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 2025 / 8 / 1–56 DOI 10.1007/JHEP08(2025)006
Makale Linki https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08(2025)006
UAK Araştırma Alanları
Fen Bilimleri ve Matematik
Özet
Measurements of light-by-light scattering (LbL, γγ→ γγ) and the Breit-Wheeler process (BW, γγ→ e+ e−) are reported in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV. The data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 nb− 1, was collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2018. Events with an exclusively produced γγ or e+ e− pair with invariant masses m γγ, ee> 5 GeV, along with other fiducial criteria, are selected. The measured BW fiducial production cross section, σ fid (γγ→ e+ e−)= 263. 5±1. 8 (stat)±17. 8 (syst) μb, as well as the differential distributions for various kinematic observables, are in agreement with leading-order quantum electrodynamics predictions complemented with final-state photon radiation. The measured differential BW cross sections allow discrimination between different theoretical descriptions of the photon flux of the lead …
Anahtar Kelimeler
Hadron-Hadron Scattering | Photon Production | Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics