Large Extra Dimension effects through Light-by-Light Scattering at the CERN LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential to detect Large Extra Dimension effects via light-by-light scattering at the LHC, showing that diphoton production can probe extra dimension scales up to around 5 TeV.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of graviton exchange in LED models through light-by-light scattering at the LHC, including background comparisons and sensitivity estimates.

Findings

Gluon-gluon collision contributions are comparable to quark-quark in diphoton production.

Diphoton production can probe LED scales up to approximately 5 TeV at the 14 TeV LHC.

The analysis includes various forward detector acceptances and integrated luminosity scenarios.

Abstract

Observing light-by-light scattering at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has received quite some attention and it is believed to be a clean and sensitive channel to possible new physics. In this paper, we study the diphoton production at the LHC via the process $\rm pp\rightarrow p\gamma\gamma p\rightarrow p\gamma\gamma p$ through graviton exchange in the Large Extra Dimension (LED) model. Typically, when we do the background analysis, we also study the Double Pomeron Exchange (DPE) of $\gamma\gamma$ production. We compare its production in the quark-quark collision mode to the gluon-gluon collision mode and find that contributions from the gluon-gluon collision mode are comparable to the quark-quark one. Our result shows, for extra dimension $\delta=4$, with an integrated luminosity $\rm {\cal L} = 200 fb^{-1}$ at the 14 TeV LHC, that diphoton production through graviton exchange can probe the LED effects up to the scale $\rm M_S=5.06 (4.51, 5.11) TeV$ for the forward detector acceptance $\xi_1 (\xi_2, \xi_3)$, respectively, where $0.0015<\xi_1<0.5$, $0.1<\xi_2<0.5$ and $0.0015<\xi_3<0.15$.