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Search for an axion-like particle with forward proton scattering in association with photon pairs at ATLAS
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Search for an axion-like particle with forward proton scattering in association with photon pairs at ATLAS

G. Aad, B. Abbott, K. Abeling, N.J. Abicht, S.H. Abidi, A. Aboulhorma, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, A.C. Abusleme Hoffman, …
Journal of High Energy Physics, 卷.2023(7), 234
08/2023

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CP Violation Hadron-Hadron Scattering Nuclear and High Energy Physics
A search for forward proton scattering in association with light-by-light scattering mediated by an axion-like particle is presented, using the ATLAS Forward Proton spectrometer to detect scattered protons and the central ATLAS detector to detect pairs of outgoing photons. Proton-proton collision data recorded in 2017 at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV were analysed, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 14.6 fb −1 . A total of 441 candidate events were selected. A search was made for a narrow resonance in the diphoton mass distribution, corresponding to an axion-like particle (ALP) with mass in the range 150–1600 GeV. No excess is observed above a smooth background. Upper limits on the production cross section of a narrow resonance are set as a function of the mass, and are interpreted as upper limits on the ALP production coupling constant, assuming 100% decay branching ratio into a photon pair. The inferred upper limit on the coupling constant is in the range 0.04–0.09 TeV −1 at 95% confidence level. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

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