Title
Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Date Issued
05 September 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Aaboud M.
Aad G.
Abbott B.
Abdallah J.
Abdinov O.
Abeloos B.
Abidi S.H.
AbouZeid O.S.
Abraham N.L.
Abramowicz H.
Abreu H.
Abreu R.
Abulaiti Y.
Acharya B.S.
Adachi S.
Adamczyk L.
Adelman J.
Adersberger M.
Adye T.
Affolder A.A.
Agatonovic-Jovin T.
Agheorghiesei C.
Aguilar-Saavedra J.A.
Ahlen S.P.
Ahmadov F.
Aielli G.
Akatsuka S.
Akerstedt H.
Åkesson T.P.A.
Akimov A.V.
Alberghi G.L.
Albert J.
Alconada Verzini M.J.
Aleksa M.
Aleksandrov I.N.
Alexa C.
Alexander G.
Alexopoulos T.
Alhroob M.
Ali B.
Aliev M.
Alimonti G.
Alison J.
Alkire S.P.
Allbrooke B.M.M.
Allen B.W.
Allport P.P.
Aloisio A.
Alonso A.
Alonso F.
Alpigiani C.
Alshehri A.A.
Alstaty M.
Alvarez Gonzalez B.
Álvarez Piqueras D.
Alviggi M.G.
Amadio B.T.
Amaral Coutinho Y.
Amelung C.
Amidei D.
Amor Dos Santos S.P.
Amorim A.
Amoroso S.
Amundsen G.
Anastopoulos C.
Ancu L.S.
Andari N.
Andeen T.
Anders C.F.
Anders J.K.
Anderson K.J.
Andreazza A.
Andrei V.
Angelidakis S.
Angelozzi I.
Angerami A.
Anghinolfi F.
Anisenkov A.V.
Anjos N.
Annovi A.
Antel C.
Antonelli M.
Antonov A.
Antrim D.J.
Anulli F.
Aoki M.
Aperio Bella L.
Arabidze G.
Arai Y.
Araque J.P.
Araujo Ferraz V.
Arce A.T.H.
Ardell R.E.
Arduh F.A.
Arguin J.F.
Argyropoulos S.
Arik M.
Armbruster A.J.
Armitage L.J.
Arnaez O.
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
Light-by-light scattering (γγ → γγ) 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 μ1 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 (γγ) → Pb(∗) + Pb(∗)γγ,for photon transverse energy ET > 3GeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity |η| <2.4, diphoton invariant mass greater than 6GeV, diphoton transverse momentum lower than 2GeV 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.
Start page
852
End page
858
Volume
13
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85028933316
Source
Nature Physics
ISSN of the container
17452473
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation and Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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