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Title: | Observation of τ Lepton Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}] = 5.02 TeV |
Authors: | Tumasyan, A Adam, W Andrejkovic, JW Bergauer, T Chatterjee, S Damanakis, K Dragicevic, M Escalante Del Valle, A Hussain, PS Jeitler, M Krammer, N Mestdach, G Niedziela, M Rendón, C Roskas, C Samalan, A Skovpen, K Tytgat, M Van Den Bossche, N Vermassen, B Wezenbeek, L Benecke, A Bruno, G Bury, F Caputo, C David, P Delaere, C Donertas, IS Giammanco, A Jaffel, K Jain, S Lemaitre, V Mondal, K Prisciandaro, J Taliercio, A Tran, TT Vischia, P Wertz, S Alves, GA Coelho, E Hensel, C Moraes, A Rebello Teles, P Aldá Júnior, WL Alves Gallo Pereira, M Reid, ID Barroso Ferreira Filho, M Brandao Malbouisson, H Carvalho, W Kyberd, P Chinellato, J Da Costa, EM Khan, A Da Silveira, GG Cole, JE Coldham, K Lechner, L Liko, D Mikulec, I Paulitsch, P Pitters, FM Schieck, J Schöfbeck, R Schwarz, D Templ, S Waltenberger, W Wulz, CE Darwish, MR Janssen, T Kello, T Rejeb Sfar, H Van Mechelen, P Bols, ES D'Hondt, J De Moor, A Delcourt, M El Faham, H Lowette, S Moortgat, S Morton, A Müller, D Sahasransu, AR Tavernier, S Van Doninck, W Vannerom, D Clerbaux, B De Lentdecker, G Favart, L Hohov, D Jaramillo, J Lee, K Mahdavikhorrami, M Makarenko, I Malara, A Paredes, S Pétré, L Postiau, N Starling, E Thomas, L Vanden Bemden, M Vander Velde, C Vanlaer, P Dobur, D Knolle, J Lambrecht, L |
Keywords: | relativistic heavy-ion collisions;tau leptons;magnetic moment;hadron colliders;particles and fields;nuclear physics |
Issue Date: | 12-Oct-2023 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Tumasyan, A. et al. for the CMS Collaboration. (2023) 'Observation of τ Lepton Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}] = 5.02 TeV', Physical review letters, 131 (15), 151803, pp. 1 - 18. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.151803. |
Abstract: | We present an observation of photon-photon production of τ lepton pairs in ultraperipheral lead-lead collisions. The measurement is based on a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 404 μb^{-1} collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV. The γγ→τ^{+}τ^{-} process is observed for τ^{+}τ^{-} events with a muon and three charged hadrons in the final state. The measured fiducial cross section is σ(γγ→τ^{+}τ^{-})=4.8±0.6(stat)±0.5(syst) μb, where the second (third) term corresponds to the statistical (systematic) uncertainty in σ(γγ→τ^{+}τ^{-}) in agreement with leading-order QED predictions. Using σ(γγ→τ^{+}τ^{-}), we estimate a model-dependent value of the anomalous magnetic moment of the τ lepton of a_{τ}=0.001_{-0.089}^{+0.055}. |
Description: | A preprint of this paper is available at arXiv:2206.05192 [nucl-ex], https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.05192. It has not been certified by peer review. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28709 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.151803 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: A. Tumasyan https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0684-6742 ORCiD: Joanne E Cole https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5638-7599 ORCiD: Akram Khan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4597-4402 ORCiD: Paul Kyberd https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7353-7090 ORCiD: Ivan D Reid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9235-779X 151803 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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