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T1 - Observation of Light-by-Light Scattering in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abbott, D. C.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abed Abud, A.
AU - Abeling, K.
AU - Abhayasinghe, D. K.
AU - Abidi, S. H.
AU - AbouZeid, O. S.
AU - Abraham, N. L.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Achkar, B.
AU - Adachi, S.
AU - Adam, L.
AU - Adam Bourdarios, C.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adamek, L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adersberger, M.
AU - Adiguzel, A.
AU - Adorni, S.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Afik, Y.
AU - Agapopoulou, C.
AU - Agaras, M. N.
AU - Aggarwal, A.
AU - Agheorghiesei, C.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Ahmed, W. S.
AU - Ai, X.
AU - Anisenkov, A. V.
AU - Baldin, E. M.
AU - Beloborodov, K.
AU - Bobrovnikov, V. S.
AU - Kazanin, V. F.
AU - Kharlamov, A. G.
AU - Kharlamova, T.
AU - Maslennikov, A. L.
AU - Maximov, D. A.
AU - Podberezko, P.
AU - Rezanova, O. L.
AU - Soukharev, A. M.
AU - Talyshev, A. A.
AU - Tikhonov, Yu A.
AU - Zhulanov, V.
AU - Бузыкаев, Алексей Рафаилович
AU - Пелеганчук, Сергей Владимирович
AU - Bogdanchikov, A. G.
N1 - Funding Information: We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC, and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST, and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR, and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS and CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF, and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, CRC, and Compute Canada, Canada; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d’ Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales, and Aristeia Programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and GIF, Israel; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. . Publisher Copyright: © 2019 CERN.
PY - 2019/7/31
Y1 - 2019/7/31
N2 - This Letter describes the observation of the light-by-light scattering process, γγ→γγ, in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV. The analysis is conducted using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.73 nb-1, collected in November 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Light-by-light scattering candidates are selected in events with two photons produced exclusively, each with transverse energy ETγ>3 GeV and pseudorapidity |ηγ|<2.4, diphoton invariant mass above 6 GeV, and small diphoton transverse momentum and acoplanarity. After applying all selection criteria, 59 candidate events are observed for a background expectation of 12±3 events. The observed excess of events over the expected background has a significance of 8.2 standard deviations. The measured fiducial cross section is 78±13(stat)±7(syst)±3(lumi) nb.
AB - This Letter describes the observation of the light-by-light scattering process, γγ→γγ, in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV. The analysis is conducted using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.73 nb-1, collected in November 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Light-by-light scattering candidates are selected in events with two photons produced exclusively, each with transverse energy ETγ>3 GeV and pseudorapidity |ηγ|<2.4, diphoton invariant mass above 6 GeV, and small diphoton transverse momentum and acoplanarity. After applying all selection criteria, 59 candidate events are observed for a background expectation of 12±3 events. The observed excess of events over the expected background has a significance of 8.2 standard deviations. The measured fiducial cross section is 78±13(stat)±7(syst)±3(lumi) nb.
KW - ULTRARELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION
KW - DELBRUCK SCATTERING
KW - PHYSICS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071896312&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.052001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.052001
M3 - Article
C2 - 31491300
AN - SCOPUS:85071896312
VL - 123
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 5
M1 - 052001
ER -
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