Measurement of light-by-light scattering and search for axion-like particles with 2.2 nb−1 of Pb+Pb data with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2021)243

Measurement of light-by-light scattering and search for axion-like particles with 2.2 nb⁻¹ of Pb+Pb data with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS Collaboration

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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 sNN = 5.02 TeV. Light-by-light scattering candidates are selected in events with two photons produced exclusively, each with transverse energy ETγ> 2.5 GeV, pseudorapidity |η_γ| < 2.37, diphoton invariant mass m_γγ> 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. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English (US)
Article number	243
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2021
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)243
State	Published - Mar 2021

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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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