Observation of proton-tagged, central (semi)exclusive production of high-mass lepton pairs in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer
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CMS Collaboration
TOTEM Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Azzolini, Virginia
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bauer, Gerry P
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Date Issued
July 2018
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Observation of Proton-Tagged, Central (semi)exclusive Production of High-Mass Lepton Pairs in Pp Collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2018, 7 (July 2018): 153 © 2018 The Author(s)
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Abstract
The process pp → pℓ⁺ℓ⁻p(*), with ℓ⁺ℓ⁻ a muon or an electron pair produced at midrapidity with mass larger than 110 GeV, has been observed for the first time at the LHC in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV. One of the two scattered protons is measured in the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer (CT-PPS), which operated for the first time in 2016. The second proton either remains intact or is excited and then dissociates into a low-mass state p*, which is undetected. The measurement is based on an integrated luminosity of 9.4 fb⁻¹ collected during standard, high-luminosity LHC operation. A total of 12 μ⁺μ⁻ and 8 e⁺e⁻ pairs with m(ℓ⁺ℓ⁻) > 110 GeV, and matching forward proton kinematics, are observed, with expected backgrounds of 1.49 ± 0.07 (stat) ± 0.53 (syst) and 2.36 ± 0.09 (stat) ± 0.47 (syst), respectively. This corresponds to an excess of more than five standard deviations over the expected background. The present result constitutes the first observation of proton-tagged γγ collisions at the electroweak scale. This measurement also demonstrates that CT-PPS performs according to the design specifications. Keywords: Forward physics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Photon production; proton-proton scattering
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2018)153
