High Energy Two-Photon Interactions at the LHC
Abstract
Two-photon events at the LHC are characterized by the protons scattered at very small angles and the particles centrally produced via the photon-photon fusion. To select these events from the huge samples of generic pp interactions a detection of the scattered protons, or tagging two-photon interactions is necessary. It requires installation of the high-resolution position-sensitive detectors close to the proton beam and far from the interaction point. Efficient measurement of the forward-scattered protons will open a new field of studying high-energy photon-photon interactions at remarkable luminosity, reaching 1% of that in pp collisions. In this paper a few aspects of tagging two-photon interactions as well as several most exciting topics in the high-energy two-photon physics at the LHC are presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0201027,
title = {High Energy Two-Photon Interactions at the LHC},
author = {K. Piotrzkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0201027},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures