Exclusive production of muon pairs in the CMS experiment

par Dr Xavier Rouby (U. Freiburg)

vendredi 21 nov. 2008, 14:30 → 15:30 Europe/Paris

Bâtiment 20 - Salle de cours Master

Exclusive production of dimuons with no significant additional activity in the CMS detector occurs with high cross section in gamma-mediated processes at the LHC. A feasibility study based on a full CMS simulation concludes that selecting events with a single pair of back-to-back µ+ µ− provides a high-statistics calibration sample, e.g. for luminosity measurement and alignment of forward proton detectors. Photoproduction of Upsilon mesons, another copious source of exclusive dileptons, is also presented. http://cms.cern.ch/iCMS/jsp/openfile.jsp?type=CR&year=2008&files=CR2008_036.pdf

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