arXiv:0806.4865·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Photon Physics at LHC
M. Vander Donckt (CP3 Universite Catholique de Louvain)🇧🇪
Abstract
Experimental prospects for studying high-energy photon-photon and photon-proton interactions at the LHC are discussed. Assuming a typical LHC multipurpose detector, various signals and their irreducible backgrounds are presented after applying acceptance cuts. Selection strategies based on photon interaction tagging techniques are presented. Prospects are discussed for the Higgs boson search, detection of SUSY particles and of anomalous quartic gauge couplings, as well as for the top quark physics.
Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of DIS2008, the XVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, 7-11 April 2008, University College London