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The process of elastic scattering of photons (scattering of light by light) has attracted much attention in recent years. It goes through a loop where all the charged particles contribute to the cross section. To date, this $\gamma\gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 K. I. Beloborodov , T. A. Kharlamova , V. I. Telnov

We discuss the discovery potential of light-by-light scattering at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), induced by the Standard Model (SM) and by new exotic charged particles. Our simulation relies on intact proton detection in the planned…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-13 Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Bruno Lenzi , Christophe Royon , Matthias Saimpert

Purpose: Luminosity measurement at the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) is required to achieve 10^-4 precision when operating at the center-of-mass energy of the Z-pole. Approximately 10^12 Z-bosons will be collected to refine…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-12 Jiading Gong , Jun He , Rongyan He , Suen Hou , Quan Ji , Renjie Ma , Ming Qi , Haoyu Shi , Weimin Song , Xingyang Sun , Haijing Wang , Yilun Wang , Jialiang Zhang , Lei Zhang

A virtual production of heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) via light-by-light scattering in pp, pPb and Pb collisions at the future 100 TeV collider FCC-hh is studied. Both differential and total cross sections are calculated. The 95\% C.L.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 S. C. Inan , A. V. Kisselev

We study dilepton, proton-antiproton and diphoton production in ultraperipheral lead-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 5.02 and 5.5 TeV. The nuclear calculations are based on equivalent photon approximation in the impact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-01 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Antoni Szczurek

We explore the physics expected sensitivity at the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) and the Future Circular Collider-hadron electron (FCC-he) to search for the anomalous quartic $WW\gamma\gamma$ couplings in single $W$-boson production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-11 E. Gurkanli , V. Ari , A. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez , M. A. Hernández-Ruíz , M. Koksal

We study the two-photon production of the Higgs boson, $\rm \gamma\gamma\to H$, at the Future Circular Collider (FCC) in ultraperipheral PbPb and pPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 39$ and 63 TeV. Signal and background events are generated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-16 David d'Enterria , Daniel E. Martins , Patricia Rebello Teles

The perspectives for measuring the top quark and the Higgs boson in nuclear collisions at the LHC and Future Circular Collider (FCC) are summarized. Perturbative QCD calculations at (N)NLO accuracy, including nuclear parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-30 David d'Enterria

The aim of this article is to explore a potential usability of a photon-photon self-interaction from the noncommutative quantum electrodynamics (NCQED) in the case of light-by-light scattering ($\gamma\gamma\to\gamma\gamma$) in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Raul Horvat , Dusko Latas , Josip Trampetic , Jiangyang You

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a proposed electron-positron collider with a center-of-mass energy of 500~GeV, and a peak luminosity of $2 \cdot 10^{34}~\mathrm{cm}^{-2}\mathrm{s}^{-1}$. The ILC will complement the Large Hadron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-10-29 Iftach Sadeh

We investigate the prospects for discovering axion-like particles (ALPs) via a light-by-light (LBL) scattering at two colliders, the future circular collider (FCC-ee) and circular electron-positron collider (CEPC). The promising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Hua-Ying Zhang , Chong-Xing Yue , Yu-Chen Guo , Shuo Yang

Observing light-by-light scattering at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has received quite some attention and it is believed to be a clean and sensitive channel to possible new physics. In this paper, we study the diphoton production at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-01 Hao Sun

The hadron collider studied in the Future Circular Collider (FCC) project could operate with protons and lead ions in similar operation modes as the LHC. In this paper the potential performances in lead-lead, proton-lead and proton-proton…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Michaela Schaumann

We discuss possible future studies of photon-photon (light-by-light) scattering using a planned FoCal and ALICE 3 detectors. We include different mechanisms of $\gamma\gamma\to\gamma\gamma$ scattering, such as double-hadronic photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-22 P. Jucha , M. Klusek-Gawenda , A. Szczurek

Construction of future electron-positron colliders (or dedicated electron linac) and muon colliders (or dedicated muon ring) tangential to Future Circular Collider (FCC) will give opportunity to utilize highest energy proton and nucleus…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Y. C. Acar , A. N. Akay , S. Beser , H. Karadeniz , U. Kaya , B. B. Oner , S. Sultansoy

Under certain running conditions, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be considered as a photon-photon collider. Indeed, in proton-proton, proton-ion, ion-ion collisions, when incoming particles pass very close to each other in very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 L. Schoeffel , C. Baldenegro , H. Hamdaoui , S. Hassani , C. Royon , M. Saimpert

The measurement of charged particle spectra in heavy ion collisions is a way to study properties of hot and dense matter created in these interactions. The centrality dependence of the spectral shape is an important tool to understand the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-22 Petr Balek

In this paper we present a detailed analysis of the contribution of the Light -- by -- Light (LbL), Durham and double diffractive processes for the diphoton production in ultraperipheral $PbPb$ collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 R. O. Coelho , V. P. Goncalves , D. E. Martins , M. S. Rangel

The operation of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) with heavy ions would provide Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at sqrt{s_NN}= 39 and 63 TeV, respectively, per nucleon-nucleon collision, with projected per-month integrated luminosities of up to…