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Diphoton production in lead-lead and proton-proton UPC

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  • Kłusek-Gawenda, M.
  • Szczurek, A.

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We discuss diphoton semi(exclusive) production in ultraperipheral P bP b collisions at energy of √ sNN = 5.5 TeV (LHC). The nuclear calculations are based on equivalent photon approximation in the impact parameter space. The cross sections for elementary γγ → γγ subprocess are calculated including three different mechanisms: box diagrams with leptons and quarks in the loops, a VDM-Regge contribution with virtual intermediate hadronic excitations of the photons and the two-gluon exchange contribution (formally three-loops) to elastic photon-photon scattering in the high-energy approximation. We got relatively high cross sections in P bP b collisions (306 nb). This opens a possibility to study the γγ → γγ (quasi)elastic scattering at the LHC. We find that the cross section for elastic γγ scattering could be measured in the lead-lead collisions for the diphoton invariant mass up to Wγγ ≈ 15 − 20 GeV. We identify region(s) of phase space where the twogluon exchange contribution becomes important ingredient compared to box and nonperturbative VDM-Regge mechanisms. We perform a similar analysis for the pp → ppγγ reaction at energy of √ sNN = 7 and 100 TeV.

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  • Kłusek-Gawenda, M. & Szczurek, A., 2017. "Diphoton production in lead-lead and proton-proton UPC," Journal of Central European Green Innovation, Karoly Robert University College, vol. 5(2).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:hukrgr:266747
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.266747
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