Measurement of exclusive $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow \ell^+\ell^-$ production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector - IN2P3 - Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
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Measurement of exclusive $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow \ell^+\ell^-$ production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad (1) , Z. Barnovska (2) , N. Berger (2) , M. Delmastro (2) , L. Di Ciaccio (2) , S. Elles (2) , T. Hryn’ova (2) , S. Jézéquel (2) , I. Koletsou (2) , R. Lafaye (2) , J. Leveque (2) , N. Massol (2) , G. Sauvage (2) , E. Sauvan (2) , O. Simard (2) , T. Todorov (2) , I. Wingerter-Seez (2) , E. Yatsenko (2) , G . Rahal (3) , M.K. Ayoub (4) , A. Bassalat (4) , C. Becot (4) , S. Binet (4) , C. Bourdarios (4) , J.B. de Vivie de Regie (4) , D. Delgove (4) , L. Duflot (4) , M. Escalier (4) , L. Fayard (4) , D. Fournier (4) , E.L. Gkougkousis (4) , J.-F. Grivaz (4) , T. Guillemin (4) , F. Hariri (4) , S. Henrot-Versillé (4) , J. Hrivnac (4) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (4) , M. Kado (4) , A. Lounis (4) , N. Makovec (4) , N. Morange (4) , C. Nellist (4) , L. Poggioli (4) , P. Puzo (4) , A. Renaud (4) , D. Rousseau (4) , G. Rybkin (4) , A.C. Schaffer (4) , E. Scifo (4) , L. Serin (4) , S. Simion (4) , R. Tanaka (4) , H.L. Tran (4) , D. Zerwas (4) , Zhongkai Zhang (4) , Y. Zhao (4) , S. Albrand (5) , J. Brown (5) , J. Collot (5) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (5) , P.A. Delsart (5) , C. Gabaldon (5) , M.H. Genest (5) , J.Y. Hostachy (5) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (5) , A. Lleres (5) , A. Lucotte (5) , F. Malek (5) , C. Monini (5) , J. Stark (5) , B. Trocmé (5) , M. Wu (5) , D. Boumediene (6) , Emmanuel Busato (6) , D. Calvet (6) , S. Calvet (6) , J. Donini (6) , E. Dubreuil (6) , G. Gilles (6) , Ph. Gris (6) , H. Liao (6) , R. Madar (6) , D. Pallin (6) , S.M. Romano Saez (6) , C. Santoni (6) , D. Simon (6) , Timothée Theveneaux-Pelzer (6) , F. Vazeille (6) , L. Alio (1) , M. Barbero (1) , Y. Coadou (1) , C. Diaconu (1) , Sara Diglio (1) , F. Djama (1) , O. Duccu (1) , L. Feligioni (1) , J. Gao (1) , G.D. Hallewell (1) , F. Hubaut (1) , S.J. Kahn (1) , E. B. F. G. Knoops (1) , E. Le Guirriec (1) , J. Liu (1) , K. Liu , D. Madaffari (1) , K. Mochizuki (1) , E. Monnier (1) , S. Muanza (1) , Y. Nagai (1) , E. Nagy (1) , P. Pralavorio (1) , A. Rozanov (1) , T. Serre (1) , M. Talby (1) , R.E. Ticse Torres (1) , E. Tiouchichine (1) , S. Tisserant (1) , J. Toth (1) , F. Touchard (1) , L. Vacavant (1)
G. Aad
N. Berger
T. Hryn’ova
D. Rousseau
D. Zerwas
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Y. Coadou
K. Liu
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E. Monnier

Résumé

This Letter reports a measurement of the exclusive $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow \ell^+\ell^- (\ell=e, \mu)$ cross-section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, based on an integrated luminosity of $4.6$ fb$^{-1}$. For the electron or muon pairs satisfying exclusive selection criteria, a fit to the dilepton acoplanarity distribution is used to extract the fiducial cross-sections. The cross-section in the electron channel is determined to be $\sigma_{\gamma\gamma\rightarrow e^+e^-}^{\mathrm{excl.}} = 0.428 \pm 0.035 (\mathrm{stat.}) \pm 0.018 (\mathrm{syst.})$ pb for a phase-space region with invariant mass of the electron pairs greater than 24 GeV, in which both electrons have transverse momentum $p_\mathrm{T}>12$ GeV and pseudorapidity $|\eta|<2.4$. For muon pairs with invariant mass greater than 20 GeV, muon transverse momentum $p_\mathrm{T}>10$ GeV and pseudorapidity $|\eta|<2.4$, the cross-section is determined to be $\sigma_{\gamma\gamma\rightarrow \mu^+\mu^- }^{\mathrm{excl.}} = 0.628 \pm 0.032 (\mathrm{stat.}) \pm 0.021 (\mathrm{syst.})$ pb. When proton absorptive effects due to the finite size of the proton are taken into account in the theory calculation, the measured cross-sections are found to be consistent with the theory prediction.

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in2p3-01169510 , version 1 (29-06-2015)

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G. Aad, Z. Barnovska, N. Berger, M. Delmastro, L. Di Ciaccio, et al.. Measurement of exclusive $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow \ell^+\ell^-$ production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 2015, 749, pp.242-261. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.069⟩. ⟨in2p3-01169510⟩
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