Wednesday weekly meeting

Wednesday 26 Jul 2023, 10:00 → 11:00 Asia/Tehran

Gholamhossein Haghighat (IPM)

General weekly meeting of the school of particles and accelerators (virtual)

• Link to join: https://meet.google.com/fnv-dfkk-ghb

1 Photon-photon interactions at the LHC and future collider LHeC

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.

Speaker: Dr Hamzeh Khanpour (ICTP, AGH University of Science and Technology, IPM)