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 √s = 13 TeV. One of the two scattered protons is measured in the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer (CT-PPS...
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| author | CMS Collaboration TOTEM Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Zhaozhong, S. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics CMS Collaboration TOTEM Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Zhaozhong, S. |
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| description | 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 √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 μ⁺μ⁻ 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 γγ collisions at the electroweak scale. This measurement also demonstrates that CT-PPS performs according to the design specifications. Keywords: Forward physics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Photon production; proton-proton scattering |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1172192022-09-28T19:09:58Z 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 CMS Collaboration TOTEM Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Zhaozhong, S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Zhaozhong, S. 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 √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 μ⁺μ⁻ 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 γγ collisions at the electroweak scale. This measurement also demonstrates that CT-PPS performs according to the design specifications. Keywords: Forward physics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Photon production; proton-proton scattering 2018-07-31T15:57:40Z 2018-07-31T15:57:40Z 2018-07 2018-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117219 Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “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.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2018, 7 (July 2018): 153 © 2018 The Author(s) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-7904 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8189-3741 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-1747 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 en_US https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2018)153 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Berlin Heidelberg Springer |
| spellingShingle | CMS Collaboration TOTEM Collaboration Abercrombie, Daniel Robert Allen, Brandon Leigh Azzolini, Virginia Barbieri, Richard Alexander Baty, Austin Alan Bauer, Gerry P Bi, Ran Brandt, Stephanie Akemi Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria Demiragli, Zeynep Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Harris, Philip Coleman Hsu, Dylan George Hu, Miao Iiyama, Yutaro Innocenti, Gian Michele Klute, Markus Kovalskyi, Dmytro Lee, Yen-Jie Levin, Amy Elizabeth Luckey Jr, P David Maier, Benedikt Marini, Andrea Carlo McGinn, Christopher Francis Mironov, Camelia Maria Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan Niu, Xinmei Paus, Christoph M. E. Roland, Christof E Roland, Gunther M Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C Tatar, Kaya Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru Wang, Jing Wang, Ta-Wei Wyslouch, Boleslaw Zhaozhong, S. 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 |
| 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 |
| title_full | 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 |
| title_fullStr | 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 |
| title_full_unstemmed | 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 |
| title_short | 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 |
| title_sort | 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 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117219 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-1944 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4371-2038 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-005X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-3466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-4634 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-2673 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2822-3375 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7409-7904 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-737X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8189-3741 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-1747 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-5930 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-0855 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-293X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2351-0487 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1281-0193 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-2437 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-3560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-1591 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6448-0168 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1260-777X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5259-1883 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-7621 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 |
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