Central exclusive production in the ALICE experiment at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper discusses ALICE's capabilities at the LHC for studying central exclusive production, leveraging its low transverse momentum threshold to explore the low mass sector.

Contribution

It highlights ALICE's unique potential for investigating low mass central exclusive production at the LHC.

Findings

ALICE's low transverse momentum threshold enables detailed studies of low mass central exclusive production.

The experiment's detector setup is optimized for trigger and event classification in this context.

Potential for new insights into quantum chromodynamics phenomena at low mass scales.

Abstract

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN consists of a central barrel, a muon spectrometer and additional detectors for trigger and event classification purposes. The low transverse momentum threshold of the central barrel gives ALICE a unique opportunity to study the low mass sector of central exclusive production at the LHC.