Exclusive physics at the LHC with SuperChic 2
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-02-05 v2
Abstract
We present a range of physics results for central exclusive production processes at the LHC, using the new SuperChic 2 Monte Carlo event generator. This includes significant theoretical improvements and updates, most importantly a fully differential treatment of the soft survival factor, as well as a greater number of generated processes. We provide an overview of the latest theoretical framework, and consider in detail a selection of final states, namely exclusive 2 and 3 jets, photoproduced vector mesons, two-photon initiated muon and boson pairs and heavy quarkonia.
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@article{arxiv.1508.02718,
title = {Exclusive physics at the LHC with SuperChic 2},
author = {L. A. Harland-Lang and V. A. Khoze and M. G. Ryskin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02718},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
39 pages, 7 figures. Version accepted for publication in EPJC