%0 Journal Article
%T Search for an axion-like particle with forward proton scattering in association with photon pairs at ATLAS
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Amos, K. R.
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Bouchhar, N.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Cantero, J.
%A Cardillo, F.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Chitishvili, M.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Didenko
%A Escobar, C.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fullana Torregrosa, E.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gomez Delegido, A. J.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
%A Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Martinez Agullo, P.
%A Miralles Lopez, M.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Monsonis Romero, L.
%A Moreno Llacer, M.
%A Munoz Perez, D.
%A Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
%A Poveda, J.
%A Prades Ibañez, A.
%A Rubio Jimenez, A.
%A Ruiz-Martinez, A.
%A Sabatini, P.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Sebastian, V.
%A Sayago Galvan, I.
%A Senthilkumar, V.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valiente Moreno, E.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Varriale, L.
%A Villaplana Perez, M.
%A Vos, M.
%J Journal of High Energy Physics
%D 2023
%V 07
%N 7
%I Springer
%@ 1029-8479
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023
%O WOS:001062420100001
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%X 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 root s = 13TeV 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 0.04-0.09TeV-1 at 95% confidence level.
%K CP Violation
%K Hadron-Hadron Scattering
%R 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)234
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10953
%U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2023)234
%P 234-38pp