Savannah Clawson: Photon fusion in high pileup at ATLAS: Now and in the future

Friday 10 Dec 2021, 12:30 → 14:00 Europe/London

https://zoom.us/j/97041428849

Photon-photon fusion is a rare process at the LHC. It is particularly interesting as a remarkably clean interaction with little (if any) remnant activity from the interacting particles. In this talk, the current status of photon fusion measurements in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS detector are presented, highlighting the observation of photon-induced WW production. Another exciting possibility in photon fusion analyses is the ability to reconstruct intact protons in the final state. This is demonstrated in the observation and measurement of dilepton pairs associated with protons reconstructed in the ATLAS Forward Proton (AFP) spectrometer. Finally, the prospects of future photon fusion analyses at the high-luminosity LHC are discussed.

The seminar will be in person in Niels Bohr, Schuster. For those connecting remotely please use:

https://zoom.us/j/97041428849

Meeting ID: 970 4142 8849

Passcode: 6275

SClawson_BohrSeminar_10-12-21.pdf