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Observation of proton-tagged, central (semi)exclusive production of high-mass lepton pairs in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer

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The process pp → pℓ+ℓ−p(*), with ℓ+ℓ− a muon or an electron pair produced at midrapidity with mass larger than 110 GeV, has been observed for the first time at the LHC in pp collisions at s=13 TeV. One of the two scattered protons is measured in the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer (CT-PPS), which operated for the first time in 2016. The second proton either remains intact or is excited and then dissociates into a low-mass state p*, which is undetected. The measurement is based on an integrated luminosity of 9.4 fb−1 collected during standard, high-luminosity LHC operation. A total of 12 μ+μ− and 8 e+e− pairs with m(ℓ+ℓ−) > 110 GeV, and matching forward proton kinematics, are observed, with expected backgrounds of 1.49 ± 0.07 (stat) ± 0.53 (syst) and 2.36 ± 0.09 (stat) ± 0.47 (syst), respectively. This corresponds to an excess of more than five standard deviations over the expected background. The present result constitutes the first observation of proton-tagged γγ collisions at the electroweak scale. This measurement also demonstrates that CT-PPS performs according to the design specifications.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]. © 2018, The Author(s).

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Forward physicsHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)Photon productionproton-proton scattering
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dc.contributor.authorSirunyan, A.M.
dc.contributor.authorTumasyan, A.
dc.contributor.authorAdam, W.
dc.contributor.authorAmbrogi, F.
dc.contributor.authorAsilar, E.
dc.contributor.authorBergauer, T.
dc.contributor.authorBrandstetter, J.
dc.contributor.authorBrondolin, E.
dc.contributor.authorDragicevic, M.
dc.contributor.authorErö, J.
dc.contributor.authorEscalante Del Valle, A.
dc.contributor.authorFlechl, M.
dc.contributor.authorFriedl, M.
dc.contributor.authorFrühwirth, R.
dc.contributor.authorGhete, V.M.
dc.contributor.authorGrossmann, J.
dc.contributor.authorHrubec, J.
dc.contributor.authorJeitler, M.
dc.contributor.authorKönig, A.
dc.contributor.authorKrammer, N.
dc.contributor.authorKrätschmer, I.
dc.contributor.authorLiko, D.
dc.contributor.authorMadlener, T.
dc.contributor.authorMikulec, I.
dc.contributor.authorPree, E.
dc.contributor.authorRad, N.
dc.contributor.authorRohringer, H.
dc.contributor.authorSchieck, J.
dc.contributor.authorSchöfbeck, R.
dc.contributor.authorSpanring, M.
dc.contributor.authorSpitzbart, D.
dc.contributor.authorTaurok, A.
dc.contributor.authorWaltenberger, W.
dc.contributor.authorWittmann, J.
dc.contributor.authorWulz, C.-E.
dc.contributor.authorZarucki, M.
dc.contributor.authorChekhovsky, V.
dc.contributor.authorMossolov, V.
dc.contributor.authorSuarez Gonzalez, J.
dc.contributor.authorDe Wolf, E.A.
dc.contributor.authorDi Croce, D.
dc.contributor.authorJanssen, X.
dc.contributor.authorLauwers, J.
dc.contributor.authorPieters, M.
dc.contributor.authorVan De Klundert, M.
dc.contributor.authorVan Haevermaet, H.
dc.contributor.authorVan Mechelen, P.
dc.contributor.authorVan Remortel, N.
dc.contributor.authorAbu Zeid, S.
dc.contributor.authorBlekman, F.
dc.date.accessioned2026-10-18T20:29:05.652261247Z
dc.date.available2026-10-18T20:29:05.652261247Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe process pp → pℓ+ℓ−p(*), with ℓ+ℓ− a muon or an electron pair produced at midrapidity with mass larger than 110 GeV, has been observed for the first time at the LHC in pp collisions at s=13 TeV. One of the two scattered protons is measured in the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer (CT-PPS), which operated for the first time in 2016. The second proton either remains intact or is excited and then dissociates into a low-mass state p*, which is undetected. The measurement is based on an integrated luminosity of 9.4 fb−1 collected during standard, high-luminosity LHC operation. A total of 12 μ+μ− and 8 e+e− pairs with m(ℓ+ℓ−) > 110 GeV, and matching forward proton kinematics, are observed, with expected backgrounds of 1.49 ± 0.07 (stat) ± 0.53 (syst) and 2.36 ± 0.09 (stat) ± 0.47 (syst), respectively. This corresponds to an excess of more than five standard deviations over the expected background. The present result constitutes the first observation of proton-tagged γγ collisions at the electroweak scale. This measurement also demonstrates that CT-PPS performs according to the design specifications.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]. © 2018, The Author(s).
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding text 1: computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS and TOTEM detectors provided by the following funding agencies: the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and the Austrian Science Fund; the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; the Brazilian Funding Agencies (CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP); the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science; CERN; the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, and National Natural Science Foundation of China; the Colombian Funding Agency (COLCIENCIAS); the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, and the Croatian Science Foundation; the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus; the Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ecuador; the Ministry of Education and Research, Estonian Research Council via IUT23-4 and IUT23-6 and European Regional Development Fund, Estonia; the Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, Helsinki Institute of Physics, the Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation, the Waldemar von Frenckell Foundation, and the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (The Vilho Yrjö and Kalle Väisälä Fund); the Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules / CNRS, and Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives / CEA, France; the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, Germany; the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece; the National Scientific Research Foundation, and National Innovation Office, the OTKA NK 101438, and the EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00001 grant (Hungary); the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology, India; the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and National Research Foundation (NRF), Republic of Korea; the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; the Ministry of Education, and University of Malaya (Malaysia); the Mexican Funding Agencies (BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI); the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand; the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Center, Poland; the Fundacão para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Russian Competitiveness Program of NRNU “MEPhI”; the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia; the Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Plan de Cien-cia, Tecnología e Innovación 2013-2017 del Principado de Asturias and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies (ETH Board, ETH Zurich, PSI, SNF, UniZH, Canton Zurich, and SER); the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand, Special Task Force for Activating Research and the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand; the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and Turkish Atomic Energy Authority; the National; Funding text 2: Open Access, Copyright CERN, for the benefit of the CMS and TOTEM Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3.; Funding text 3: Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and State Fund for Fundamental Researches, Ukraine; the Science and Technology Facilities Council, U.K.; the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/jhep07(2018)153
dc.identifier.issn1029-8479
dc.identifier.issue7
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85051832717
dc.identifier.startpage153
dc.identifier.urihttps://rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net/r/ebyu/14290
dc.identifier.volume2018
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of High Energy Physics
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectForward physics
dc.subjectHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
dc.subjectPhoton production
dc.subjectproton-proton scattering
dc.titleObservation of proton-tagged, central (semi)exclusive production of high-mass lepton pairs in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication
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rdl.oa.statusgold
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