%0 Journal Article
%T Observation of the γγ → ττ Process in Pb plus Pb Collisions and Constraints on the τ-Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moment with the ATLAS Detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Amos, K. R.
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Cantero, J.
%A Cardillo, F.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%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 Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
%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 Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Varriale, L.
%A Villaplana Perez, M.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physical Review Letters
%D 2023
%V 131
%N 15
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 0031-9007
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023
%O WOS:001094306100001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5837), last updated on Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:45:05 +0000
%X This Letter reports the observation of tau-lepton-pair production in ultraperipheral lead-lead collisions Pb + Pb -> Pb(gamma gamma -> tau tau)Pb and constraints on the tau-lepton anomalous magnetic moment a(tau). The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.44 nb(-1) of LHC Pb + Pb collisions at root(NN)-N-s = 5.02 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment in 2018. Selected events contain one muon from a t-lepton decay, an electron or charged-particle track(s) from the other tau-lepton decay, little additional central-detector activity, and no forward neutrons. The gamma gamma -> tau tau process is observed in Pb + Pb collisions with a significance exceeding 5 standard deviations and a signal strength of mu(tau tau) = 1.03(-0.05)(+0.06) assuming the standard model value for a(tau). To measure a(tau), a template fit to the muon transverse-momentum distribution from tau-lepton candidates is performed, using a dimuon (gamma gamma -> μmu) control sample to constrain systematic uncertainties. The observed 95% confidence-level interval for a(tau) is -0.057 < a(tau) < 0.024.
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.151802
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13478
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.151802
%P 151802-23pp