TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al
AU  - Alvarez Piqueras, D.
AU  - Barranco Navarro, L.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Cerda Alberich, L.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Fernandez Martinez, P.
AU  - Ferrer, A.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Jimenez Pena, J.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Mamuzic, J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Melini, D.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Pedraza Lopez, S.
AU  - Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
AU  - Romero Adam, E.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Sanchez Martinez, V.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - Evidence for light-by-light scattering in heavy-ion collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
T2  - Nat. Phys.
JO  - Nature Physics
SP  - 852
EP  - 858
VL  - 13
IS  - 9
PB  - Nature Publishing Group
AB  - Light-by-light scattering (gamma gamma -> 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 ions. Using 480 μb(-1) of lead-lead collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV by the ATLAS detector, here we report evidence for light-by-light scattering. A total of 13 candidate events were observed with an expected background of 2.6 +/- 0.7 events. After background subtraction and analysis corrections, the fiducial cross-section of the process Pb + Pb (gamma gamma) -> Pb-(center dot) + Pb-(center dot) gamma gamma, for photon transverse energy E-T > 3 GeV, photon absolute pseudorapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar < 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 +/- 24 (stat.) +/- 17 (syst.) nb, which is in agreement with the standard model predictions.
SN  - 1745-2473
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01625
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS4208
DO  - 10.1038/NPHYS4208
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000409235100017
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2017
ER  -