Exclusive processes in pp collisions in CMS
Abstract
We report the results on the searches of exclusive production of low- and high-mass pairs with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector in proton-proton collisions at = 7 TeV. The analyses comprise the central exclusive production, the exclusive two-photon production of dileptons, and , and the exclusive two-photon production of pairs in the asymmetric decay channel. No diphotons candidates are observed in data and an upper limit on the cross section is set to 1.18 pb with 95% confidence level for 5.5 GeV and 2.5. In the measurement of exclusive dilepton production, seventeen candidates are observed in data with 5.5 GeV and 2.5, and the cross section for the exclusive dimuon production is set to (stat.) 0.16 (syst.) 0.14 (lumi.) pb for 11.5 GeV, 4 GeV and 2.1, both in agreement with the theoretical predictions. For high-mass systems, two events are observed in data for the exclusive two-photon production of pairs for 4 GeV, 2.4 and 20 GeV. Moreover, the study of the tail of the dilepton transverse momentum distribution resulted in model-independent upper limits for the anomalous quartic gauge couplings, which are of the order of 10.
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@article{arxiv.1310.5327,
title = {Exclusive processes in pp collisions in CMS},
author = {Gustavo G. da Silveira},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5327},
year = {2019}
}
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7 pages, 6 figures, presented at the XXI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, April 2013, Marseille, France