Hot QCD white paper

M Arslandok, SA Bass, AA Baty, I Bautista… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Hot QCD physics studies the nuclear strong force under extreme temperature and densities.
Experimentally these conditions are achieved via high-energy collisions of heavy ions at the …

Energy dependence of coherent photonuclear production of J/ψ mesons in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract The cross section for coherent photonuclear production of J/ψ is presented as a
function of the electromagnetic dissociation (EMD) of Pb. The measurement is performed …

Lepton pair production in ultraperipheral collisions: Toward a precision test of the resummation formalism

DY Shao, C Zhang, J Zhou, Y Zhou - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present a detailed investigation of the azimuthal asymmetries and acoplanarity in lepton
pair production in ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs). These observables provide a unique …

Energy dependence of coherent photonuclear production of J/ mesons in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at =5.02 TeV

Alice Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19060, 2023 - arxiv.org
The cross section for coherent photonuclear production of J/$\psi $ is presented as a
function of the electromagnetic dissociation (EMD) of Pb. The measurement is performed …

[HTML][HTML] SU(3) Gauge Symmetry: An Experimental Review of Diffractive Physics in e+p, p+p, p+A, and A+A Collision Systems

KL Smith - Symmetry, 2024 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on diffractive physics, which involves the long-range interactions of
strong nuclear force at high energies described by SU (3) gauge symmetry. It is expected …

Dimuon and ditau production in photon-photon collisions at next-to-leading order in QED

HS Shao, D d'Enterria - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13610, 2024 - arxiv.org
Next-to-leading-order (NLO) quantum electrodynamics (QED) corrections to the production
of muon and tau pairs in photon-photon collisions, $\gamma\gamma\to\mu^{+}\mu …

Probing positivity at the LHC with exclusive photon-fusion processes

J Gu, C Shu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract By tagging one or two intact protons in the forward direction, it is possible to select
and measure exclusive photon-fusion processes at the LHC. The same processes can also …

Measurement of muon pairs produced via scattering in nonultraperipheral collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, K Abeling, SH Abidi… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Results of a measurement of dimuon photoproduction in nonultraperipheral Pb+ Pb
collisions at s NN= 5.02 TeV are presented. The measurement uses ATLAS data from the …

Strategy to measure tau via photon fusion in LHC proton collisions

L Beresford, S Clawson, J Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06336, 2024 - arxiv.org
Measuring the tau-lepton ($\tau $) anomalous magnetic moment $ a_\tau=(g_\tau-2)/2$ in
photon fusion production ($\gamma\gamma\to\tau\tau $) tests foundational Standard Model …

Measurement of photonuclear jet production in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11060, 2024 - arxiv.org
In ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, the photoproduction of high-energy jets can be used
to constrain nuclear parton distributions for a wide range of parton kinematics. Results are …