Production of dileptons via photon-photon fusion in proton-proton collisions with one forward proton measurement

TL;DR

This paper investigates dilepton production in proton-proton collisions through photon-photon fusion with one forward proton detection, incorporating photon transverse momenta and different process categories relevant for LHC experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed model of dilepton production via photon fusion with one proton tagged, including transverse momentum effects and process categories, for improved LHC analysis.

Findings

Differential distributions of dilepton production are presented.

Differences between tagged and untagged proton processes are analyzed.

A soft gap survival factor is computed using SuperChic-4.

Abstract

We discuss the mechanism of dilepton production in proton-proton scattering via fusion of virtual photons with identification of one proton on either side. This is relevant for the ATLAS+AFP and CMS+PPS at the LHC. Transverse momenta of the photons are taken into account via photon unintegrated fluxes. The latter ones are expressed in terms of proton electromagnetic form factors and structure functions. We include different categories of such processes (double elastic, single dissociative). Some differential distributions are shown explicitly and differences with respect to the results without proton identification are discussed. A soft gap survival factor is calculated using SuperChic-4 code.