Light-by-Light Scattering in a Photon-Photon Collider
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2018-11-14 v5 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
We studied the feasibility of observing light-by-light scattering in a photon-photon collider based on an existing accelerator complex and a commercially available laser system. We investigated the statistical significance of the signal over the QED backgrounds through a Monte Carlo simulation with a detector model. The study showed that light-by-light scattering can be observed with a statistical significance of 8 to 10 sigma in a year of operation, depending on the operating conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.00101,
title = {Light-by-Light Scattering in a Photon-Photon Collider},
author = {T. Takahashi and G. An and Y. Chen and W. Chou and Y. Huang and W. Liu and W. Lu and J. Lv and G. Pei and S. Pei and C. P. Shen and B. Sun and C. Zhang and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00101},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
7 pages, 9 figures