Unveiling the properties of the dimuonium at the energies available at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

TL;DR

This paper investigates the production of dimuonium in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC, introducing a new formalism and analyzing the potential for its first terrestrial detection.

Contribution

A new formalism for dimuonium production in high-energy collisions is developed, aiding future experimental proposals at the LHC.

Findings

Potential for first terrestrial detection of dimuonium at LHC energies

Analysis of phase space and reaction mechanisms affecting dimuonium observables

Identification of challenges in observing dimuonium decay signals

Abstract

We study the production of the dimuonium (also known as true muonium) in two and three photon fusion processes in nucleus--nucleus collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies. A new formalism is introduced for the production process and valuable new information is extracted which will be helpful in proposals of future experiments. We explore the phase space constraints, the reaction mechanisms, and how the dimounium decay observables might be jeopardized by other physical processes. We show that the energies available at the large hadron collider at CERN might lead to the first identification of the dimounium in a terrestrial laboratory.