Measurement of light-by-light scattering and search for axion-like particles with 2<i>.</i>2 nb<SUP><i>-</i>1</SUP> of Pb+Pb data with the ATLAS detector



Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abud, A Abed, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2923 more authors) (2021) Measurement of light-by-light scattering and search for axion-like particles with 2<i>.</i>2 nb<SUP><i>-</i>1</SUP> of Pb+Pb data with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 03 (3). 243-.

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Abstract

This paper describes a measurement of light-by-light scattering based on Pb+Pb collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment during Run 2 of the LHC. The study uses $2.2$ nb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected in 2015 and 2018 at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=5.02$ TeV. Light-by-light scattering candidates are selected in events with two photons produced exclusively, each with transverse energy $E_{\mathrm{T}}^{\gamma} > 2.5$ GeV, pseudorapidity $|\eta_{\gamma}| < 2.37$, diphoton invariant mass $m_{\gamma\gamma} > 5$ GeV, and with small diphoton transverse momentum and diphoton acoplanarity. The integrated and differential fiducial cross sections are measured and compared with theoretical predictions. The diphoton invariant mass distribution is used to set limits on the production of axion-like particles. This result provides the most stringent limits to date on axion-like particle production for masses in the range 6-100 GeV. Cross sections above 2 to 70 nb are excluded at the 95% CL in that mass interval.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 44 pages in total, author list starting page 28, 10 figures, 1 table, submitted to JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2019-08/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2020 10:35
Last Modified: 16 Oct 2023 17:59
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2021)243
Open Access URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP03...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3110209