Importance of mesons in light-by-light scattering in ultraperipheral lead-lead collisions at the LHC

Possibility of PbPb→PbPbγγ measurement at smaller (< 5 GeV) diphoton invariant mass will be presented. Analysis focuses only on ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions. This estimate shows that the γγ → γγ collisions can be measured at the LHC by ALICE and LHCb experiments for diphoton invariant mas...

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Main Author: Kłusek-Gawenda Mariola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/04/epjconf_meson2019_05004.pdf
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Summary:Possibility of PbPb→PbPbγγ measurement at smaller (< 5 GeV) diphoton invariant mass will be presented. Analysis focuses only on ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions. This estimate shows that the γγ → γγ collisions can be measured at the LHC by ALICE and LHCb experiments for diphoton invariant mass > 2 GeV. Predictions for the γγ → η, γγ → η′ resonance scattering shows that these resonances can be measured with rather good statistics. A possible observation of peaks related to intermediate η, η′(958), ηc(1S), ηc(2S), χc0(1P) mesons will be presented too. Attempts of reduction of background which comes from dipion production will be considered.
ISSN:2100-014X