Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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Alconada Verzini, María Josefina; Alonso, Francisco; Arduh, Francisco Anuar; Dova, María Teresa; Hoya, Joaquín; Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel; Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo; The ATLAS Collaboration
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2017
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Light-by-light scattering (γγ → γγ) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large electromagnetic field strengths generated by ultra-relativistic colliding lead ions. Using 480 μ 1 of lead-lead collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the ATLAS detector, here we report evidence for light-by-light scattering. A total of 13 candidate events were observed with an expected background of 2.6 ± 0.7 events. After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross-section of the process Pb + Pb (γγ) → Pb (∗) + Pb (∗) γγ ,for photon transverse energy E T > 3GeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity |η| <2.4, diphoton invariant mass greater than 6GeV, diphoton transverse momentum lower than 2GeV and diphoton acoplanarity below 0.01, is measured to be 70 ± 24 (stat.) ±17 (syst.) nb, which is in agreement with the standard model predictions.
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Heavy-ion collisions
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spelling Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHCAlconada Verzini, María JosefinaAlonso, FranciscoArduh, Francisco AnuarDova, María TeresaHoya, JoaquínMonticelli, Fernando GabrielWahlberg, Hernán PabloThe ATLAS CollaborationFísicaLarge Hadron ColliderHeavy-ion collisionsLight-by-light scattering (γγ → γγ) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large electromagnetic field strengths generated by ultra-relativistic colliding lead ions. Using 480 μ 1 of lead-lead collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the ATLAS detector, here we report evidence for light-by-light scattering. A total of 13 candidate events were observed with an expected background of 2.6 ± 0.7 events. After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross-section of the process Pb + Pb (γγ) → Pb (∗) + Pb (∗) γγ ,for photon transverse energy E T > 3GeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity |η| <2.4, diphoton invariant mass greater than 6GeV, diphoton transverse momentum lower than 2GeV and diphoton acoplanarity below 0.01, is measured to be 70 ± 24 (stat.) ±17 (syst.) nb, which is in agreement with the standard model predictions.La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivoInstituto de Física La Plata2017info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionArticulohttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdf852-858http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/87669enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1745-2473info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/nphys4208info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)reponame:SEDICI (UNLP)instname:Universidad Nacional de La Platainstacron:UNLP2025-10-22T16:58:01Zoai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/87669Institucionalhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/Universidad públicaNo correspondehttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/oai/snrdalira@sedici.unlp.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:13292025-10-22 16:58:01.874SEDICI (UNLP) - Universidad Nacional de La Platafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
title Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
spellingShingle Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
Física
Large Hadron Collider
Heavy-ion collisions
title_short Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
title_full Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
title_fullStr Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
title_full_unstemmed Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
title_sort Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
Alonso, Francisco
Arduh, Francisco Anuar
Dova, María Teresa
Hoya, Joaquín
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The ATLAS Collaboration
author Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
author_facet Alconada Verzini, María Josefina
Alonso, Francisco
Arduh, Francisco Anuar
Dova, María Teresa
Hoya, Joaquín
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The ATLAS Collaboration
author_role author
author2 Alonso, Francisco
Arduh, Francisco Anuar
Dova, María Teresa
Hoya, Joaquín
Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel
Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo
The ATLAS Collaboration
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Física
Large Hadron Collider
Heavy-ion collisions
topic Física
Large Hadron Collider
Heavy-ion collisions
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Light-by-light scattering (γγ → γγ) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large electromagnetic field strengths generated by ultra-relativistic colliding lead ions. Using 480 μ 1 of lead-lead collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the ATLAS detector, here we report evidence for light-by-light scattering. A total of 13 candidate events were observed with an expected background of 2.6 ± 0.7 events. After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross-section of the process Pb + Pb (γγ) → Pb (∗) + Pb (∗) γγ ,for photon transverse energy E T > 3GeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity |η| <2.4, diphoton invariant mass greater than 6GeV, diphoton transverse momentum lower than 2GeV and diphoton acoplanarity below 0.01, is measured to be 70 ± 24 (stat.) ±17 (syst.) nb, which is in agreement with the standard model predictions.
La lista completa de autores que integran el documento puede consultarse en el archivo
Instituto de Física La Plata
description Light-by-light scattering (γγ → γγ) is a quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large electromagnetic field strengths generated by ultra-relativistic colliding lead ions. Using 480 μ 1 of lead-lead collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the ATLAS detector, here we report evidence for light-by-light scattering. A total of 13 candidate events were observed with an expected background of 2.6 ± 0.7 events. After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross-section of the process Pb + Pb (γγ) → Pb (∗) + Pb (∗) γγ ,for photon transverse energy E T > 3GeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity |η| <2.4, diphoton invariant mass greater than 6GeV, diphoton transverse momentum lower than 2GeV and diphoton acoplanarity below 0.01, is measured to be 70 ± 24 (stat.) ±17 (syst.) nb, which is in agreement with the standard model predictions.
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