Speaker
Nicolas Crépet
(CERN)
Description
The LHC is not only the energy-frontier collider for parton-parton collisions, but it has proven to work as a powerful photon collider providing photon-photon collisions at center-of-mass energies never reached before. I will present results of the gamma-UPC Monte Carlo event generator [1] that can calculate any arbitrary exclusive final states produced via photon fusion in ultraperipheral collisions of protons and/or nuclei at the LHC, of relevance for novel SM measurements and BSM searches. The latest gamma-UPC developments and comparisons to LHC data will be presented [2].
[1] H.-S. Shao and D. d'Enterria, JHEP 09 (2022) 248
[2] Nicolas Crepet, David d'Enterria, Hua-Sheng Shao, in preparation