Diffraction via Pomeron and photon exchanges using proton tagging at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper discusses the potential of proton tagging at the LHC to study diffraction phenomena involving Pomeron and photon exchanges, enabling insights into QCD structures and exploratory physics like Higgs and anomalous couplings.

Contribution

It highlights the use of proton tagging to differentiate between QCD-related and exploratory physics topics at the LHC.

Findings

Proton tagging can effectively study Pomeron structure and BFKL dynamics.

Proton tagging enables exploration of Higgs boson production and anomalous photon-W/Z couplings.

The approach enhances the physics reach of the LHC in diffraction studies.

Abstract

We present some physics topics that can be studied at the LHC using proton tagging. We distinguish the QCD (Pomeron structure, BFKL analysis...) from the exploratory physics topics (HIggs boson, anomalous couplings between photons and $W/Z$ bosons)