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Automated next-to-leading order QCD and electroweak predictions of photon-photon processes in ultraperipheral collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-07-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present automated next-to-leading order QCD and/or electroweak (EW) predictions for photon-photon processes in ultraperipheral high-energy collisions of protons and ions, extending the capabilities of the MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework together in combination with the gamma-UPC code. Key aspects of this extension are discussed. We compute QCD and/or EW quantum corrections for several phenomenologically interesting processes at LHC and FCC-hh energies.

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@article{arxiv.2504.10104,
  title  = {Automated next-to-leading order QCD and electroweak predictions of photon-photon processes in ultraperipheral collisions},
  author = {Hua-Sheng Shao and Lukas Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.10104},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

35 pages, 4 figures, 11 tables; v2: journal version (minor corrections wrt v1)