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@ARTICLE{Aaboud:318603,
author = {Aaboud, Morad and others},
collaboration = {{ATLAS Collaboration}},
othercontributors = {Tong, Baojia},
title = {{E}vidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion
collisions with the {ATLAS} detector at the {LHC}},
reportid = {PUBDB-2017-01285, CERN-EP-2016-316. arXiv:1702.01625},
year = {2017},
note = {Published online},
abstract = {Light-by-light scattering
($\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$) is a
quantum-mechanical process that is forbidden in the
classical theory of electrodynamics. This reaction is
accessible at the Large Hadron Collider thanks to the large
electromagnetic field strengths generated by
ultra-relativistic colliding lead (Pb) ions. Using 480
$\mu$b$^{-1}$ of Pb+Pb collision data recorded at a
centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the
ATLAS detector, the ATLAS Collaboration reports evidence for
the $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$ reaction. A total
of 13 candidate events are observed with an expected
background of 2.6$\pm$0.7 events. After background
subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross
section of the process
$\textrm{Pb+Pb}\,(\gamma\gamma)\rightarrow
\textrm{Pb}^{(\ast)}\textrm{+}\textrm{Pb}^{(\ast)}\,\gamma\gamma$,
for photon transverse energy $E_{\mathrm{T}}>$3 GeV, photon
absolute pseudorapidity $|\eta|<$2.4, diphoton invariant
mass greater than 6 GeV, diphoton transverse momentum lower
than 2 GeV and diphoton acoplanarity below 0.01, is measured
to be 70 $\pm$ 24 (stat.) $\pm$ 17 (syst.) nb, which is in
agreement with Standard Model predictions.},
keywords = {photon photon: scattering (INSPIRE) / electromagnetic
field: high (INSPIRE) / photon: transverse energy (INSPIRE)
/ heavy ion: scattering (INSPIRE) / lead (INSPIRE) / mass
spectrum: two-photon (INSPIRE) / mass spectrum: (2photon)
(INSPIRE) / ATLAS (INSPIRE) / CERN LHC Coll (INSPIRE) /
background (INSPIRE) / photon: transverse momentum (INSPIRE)
/ quantum mechanics (INSPIRE) / field strength (INSPIRE) /
planarity (INSPIRE) / photon: rapidity (INSPIRE) / channel
cross section: measured (INSPIRE) / experimental results
(INSPIRE) / 5020 GeV-cms/nucleon (INSPIRE)},
cin = {ATLAS},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)ATLAS-20120731},
pnm = {611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF3-611)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-611},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)LHC-Exp-ATLAS-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25 / PUB:(DE-HGF)29},
eprint = {1702.01625},
howpublished = {arXiv:1702.01625},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:1702.01625;\%\%$},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/318603},
}