%0 Journal Article
%T Observation and Measurement of Forward Proton Scattering in Association with Lepton Pairs Produced via the Photon Fusion Mechanism at ATLAS
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Cardillo, F.
%A Castillo, F. L.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Escobar, C.
%A Estrada Pastor, O.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fullana Torregrosa, E.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
%A Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
%A Madaffari, D.
%A Mamuzic, J.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Martinez Agullo, P.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Moreno Llacer, M.
%A Poveda, J.
%A Prades Ibañez, A.
%A Rodriguez Bosca, S.
%A Ruiz-Martinez, A.
%A Sabatini, P.
%A Salt, J.
%A Santra, A.
%A Sayago Galvan, I.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Villaplana Perez, M.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physical Review Letters
%D 2020
%V 125
%N 26
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 0031-9007
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2020
%O WOS:000601155900004
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=4659), last updated on Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:00:30 +0000
%X The observation of forward proton scattering in association with lepton pairs (e(+)e(-) + p or mu(+)mu(-) + p) produced via photon fusion is presented. The scattered proton is detected by the ATLAS Forward Proton spectrometer, while the leptons are reconstructed by the central ATLAS detector. Proton-proton collision data recorded in 2017 at a center-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV are analyzed, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 14.6 fb(-1). A total of 57 (123) candidates in the ee + p (mu μ+ p) final state arc selected, allowing the background-only hypothesis to be rejected with a significance exceeding 5 standard deviations in each channel. Proton-tagging techniques are introduced for cross-section measurements in the fiducial detector acceptance, corresponding to sigma(ee)(+p) = 11.0 +/- 2.6(stat) 1.2(syst) +/- 0.3(lumi) and sigma(mu)(mu+)(p) = 7.2 +/- 1.6(stat) +/- 0.9(syst) 0.2(lumi) fb in the dielectron and dimuon channel, respectively.
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.261801
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14537
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.261801
%P 261801 - 21pp