Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
- NázevTitle
- Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHCEvidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
- Druh výsledkuResult type
- Článek v časopiseJournal article
- AutořiAuthors
- M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, B. Ali, K. Augsten, D. Caforio, P. Gallus, M. Havránek, Z. Hubáček, M. Myška, S. Pospíšil, V. Šimák, T. Slavíček, K. Smolek, M. Solar, A. Sopczak, M. Suk, V. Vacek, M. Šuta, P. Vokáč, V. Vrba, M. Zeman
- Klíčová slovaKeywords
- delbruck scattering, peripheral collisions, Pair production, gamma-gamma, collider, positron, Energy, physics
- ExperimentCollaboration
- ATLAS
- DOIDOI
- 10.1038/NPHYS4208
- Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
- Nature Physics 13(9), 852-858 (2017) · ISSN 1745-2473
- RokYear
- 2017
- JazykLanguage
- eng
- ZáznamyRecords
- ProjektProject
- Získávání nových poznatků o mikrosvětě v infrastruktuře CERNAcquiring new pieces of knowledge about micro-world in CERN research infrastructure
- CitovánoCited by
- 512 (INSPIRE-HEP)
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- https://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v13/n9/pdf/nphys4208.pdf
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AbstraktAbstract
Light-by-light scattering (gamma gamma -> gamma gamma) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large electromagnetic field strengths generated by ultra-relativistic colliding lead ions. Using 480 mu b(-1) of lead-lead collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the ATLAS detector, here we report evidence for light-by-light scattering. A total of 13 candidate events were observed with an expected background of 2.6 +/- 0.7 events. After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross-section of the process Pb + Pb (gamma gamma) -> Pb-(center dot) + Pb-(center dot) gamma gamma, for photon transverse energy E-T > 3 GeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2.4, diphoton invariant mass greater than 6 GeV, diphoton transverse momentum lower than 2 GeV and diphoton acoplanarity below 0.01, is measured to be 70 +/- 24 (stat.) +/- 17 (syst.) nb, which is in agreement with the standard model predictions.
Light-by-light scattering (gamma gamma -> gamma gamma) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large electromagnetic field strengths generated by ultra-relativistic colliding lead ions. Using 480 mu b(-1) of lead-lead collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the ATLAS detector, here we report evidence for light-by-light scattering. A total of 13 candidate events were observed with an expected background of 2.6 +/- 0.7 events. After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross-section of the process Pb + Pb (gamma gamma) -> Pb-(center dot) + Pb-(center dot) gamma gamma, for photon transverse energy E-T > 3 GeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2.4, diphoton invariant mass greater than 6 GeV, diphoton transverse momentum lower than 2 GeV and diphoton acoplanarity below 0.01, is measured to be 70 +/- 24 (stat.) +/- 17 (syst.) nb, which is in agreement with the standard model predictions.