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 (CROSBI ID 266999)
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Sirunyan, Albert ; ... ; Đurić, Senka ; Lelas, Damir ; Godinović, Nikola ; Puljak, Ivica ; Šćulac, Toni ; Mesić, Benjamin ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Kovač, Marko ; Ferenček, Dinko ; Antunović, Željko ; Starodumov, Andrey ; Brigljević, Vuko ; Luetić, Jelena ; Kadija, Krešo ; ... ; Woods, Nate
CMS Collaboration
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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
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 root 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 mu(+)/mu(-) 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 gamma gamma collisions at the electroweak scale. This measurement also demonstrates that CT-PPS performs according to the design specifications.
High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Standard Model
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Podaci o izdanju
07
2018.
153
45
objavljeno
1126-6708
1029-8479
10.1007/JHEP07(2018)153