TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
AU  - Bailey, A. J.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Cardillo, F.
AU  - Castillo, F. L.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Escobar, C.
AU  - Estrada Pastor, O.
AU  - Ferrer, A.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fullana Torregrosa, E.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
AU  - Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
AU  - Madaffari, D.
AU  - Mamuzic, J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Martinez Agullo, P.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Moreno Llacer, M.
AU  - Poveda, J.
AU  - Prades Ibañez, A.
AU  - Rodriguez Bosca, S.
AU  - Ruiz-Martinez, A.
AU  - Sabatini, P.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Santra, A.
AU  - Sayago Galvan, I.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Torro Pastor, E.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Villaplana Perez, M.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - Observation and Measurement of Forward Proton Scattering in Association with Lepton Pairs Produced via the Photon Fusion Mechanism at ATLAS
T2  - Phys. Rev. Lett.
JO  - Physical Review Letters
SP  - 261801 - 21pp
VL  - 125
IS  - 26
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0031-9007
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14537
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.261801
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.261801
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000601155900004
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2020
ER  -