Speaker
Prof.
Valery Khoze
(IPPP, Durham University,UK)
Description
I discuss the possibilities for using the LHC as a photon-photon
collider.I demonstrate that the photon parton
density in the proton is currently quite well known and consider the
implications for the LHC phenomenology. In addition, the colour
singlet nature of the photon means that it can readily lead to
exclusive or semi-exclusive events, with limited or no extra particle
production in the final state. I show how such exclusive
processes, in particular in combination with proton tagging
measurements, provide an excellent environment in which to test
the Standard Model and search for the BSM physics.
Authors
Prof.
Valery Khoze
(IPPP, Durham University,UK)
Lucian Harland-Lang
(University College London)
Prof.
Mikhail Ryskin
(PMPI)
