Photon-photon interactions at the LHC and future collider LHeC

• Hamzeh Khanpour (ICTP, AGH University of Science and Technology, IPM)

The main aim of this talk is to present exploratory studies of photon-photon interactions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the future Large Hadron-electron Collider (LHeC). The LHeC will operate at a center-of-mass energy of 1.2 TeV and is expected to produce an integrated electron-proton luminosity of 1 $ab^{−1}$, opening up unique research directions due to its high luminosity and clean experimental environment. The scientific potential of studying such photon-photon interactions at the LHC/LHeC will be evaluated by discussing the cross sections for various photon-photon processes, including the exclusive production of lepton pairs as well as pairs of W and Z bosons.