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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
| dc.contributor.author | CMS, TOTEM collaboration (2382 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nayak, Aruna | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bargassa, Pedrame | |
| dc.contributor.author | Beirão Da Cruz E Silva, Cristóvão | |
| dc.contributor.author | Di Francesco, Agostino | |
| dc.contributor.author | Faccioli, Pietro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Galinhas, Bruno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gallinaro, Michele | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hollar, Jonathan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Leonardo, Nuno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lloret Iglesias, Lara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Seixas, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Strong, Giles | |
| dc.contributor.author | Toldaiev, Oleksii | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vadruccio, Daniele | |
| dc.contributor.author | Varela, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vischia, Pietro | |
| dc.contributor.author | David Tinoco Mendes, Andre | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Musella, Pasquale | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-05T16:03:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-05T16:03:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-07-24 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-05T16:03:08Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The process pp$\to\ell^+\ell^-$p$^{(*)}$, with $\ell^+\ell^-$ 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 $\sqrt{s} =$ 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 $m(\ell^{+}\ell^{-}) >$ 110 GeV, and matching forward proton kinematics, are observed, with expected backgrounds of 1.49 $\pm$ 0.07 (stat) $\pm$ 0.53 (syst) and 2.36 $\pm$ 0.09 (stat) $\pm$ 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. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | JHEP 1807 (2018) 153; DOI 10.1007/JHEP07(2018)153 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2018)153 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27594 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation | Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC | |
| dc.title | 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 | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.awardNumber | 675440 | |
| oaire.awardTitle | Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC | |
| oaire.awardURI | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/675440/EU | |
| oaire.fundingStream | H2020 | |
| project.funder.identifier | http://doi.org/10.13039/501100008530 | |
| project.funder.name | European Commission | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article | |
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