Photoinduced inclusive cross sections in hadronic collisions at the LHC

2025/07/01 by Gȩbarowski, Robert, Łuszczak, Agnieszka, Łuszczak, Marta +1
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.00682

Abstract

We discuss inclusive electromagnetic dissociation processes in proton--proton (pp) and proton--nucleus (pA) scattering at the LHC where one or both of the protons dissociate. These processes which involve the exchange of a virtual photon in the t--channel are calculable in terms of deep inelastic structure functions (virtual photoabsorption cross sections). For the pA → XA reaction there emerges the possibility of measuring the total photoabsorption cross section on the proton at very high energies.

Citations

• Recent results on ultra-peripheral collisions with the ALICE experiment
• Ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions
• New Global Fit to the Total Photon-Proton Cross-Section sigma L+T and to the Structure Function F2
• Photoproduction at HERA
• The Polarized and Unpolarized Photon Content of the Nucleon

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