Apr 4 – 10, 2022
Auditorium Maximum UJ
Europe/Warsaw timezone
Proceedings submission deadline extended to September 11, 2022

Beyond Standard Model searches in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions with ATLAS

Apr 6, 2022, 7:02 PM
4m
Poster Ultra-peripheral collisions Poster Session 2 T08 / T09

Speaker

Agnieszka Ewa Ogrodnik (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))

Description

In heavy-ion collisions, the highly relativistic ions act as a strong source of electromagnetic radiation, enhanced by the large proton charge number $Z$. Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC) offer a natural environment in which to observe the photon-initiated production of Beyond Standard Model (BSM) processes with QED couplings. One such process sensitive to BSM effects is light-by-light scattering. This process was directly observed for the first time in UPC events at the LHC by ATLAS. In this talk, the final ATLAS measurements of light-by-light scattering will be presented. These measurements are performed using the full Run-2 dataset which results in substantially reduced uncertainties compared to the previous measurements. They provide a precise and unique opportunity to investigate extensions of the Standard Model, such as presence of axion-like particles. Measurements of tau-pair production via two-photon scattering that investigate the anomalous magnetic moment of the tau lepton are also presented. This process is also potentially sensitive to BSM effects.

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