CERN Accelerating science

For information: Geneva University

Ecole de physique
Département de physique nucléaire et corspusculaire
24, Quai Ernest-Ansermet - 1211 GENEVE 4
TéL: (022) 379 62 73 - Fax: (022) 379 69 92

A significant fraction of proton collisions at the LHC will involve photon interactions at the energies above the electroweak scale. Experimental prospects for studying such interactions at the LHC will be presented, including the rôle of the forward proton detectors in tagging and reconstruction of photon induced events. Physics scope of high-energy photon-photon fusion and photon-proton interactions at the LHC will be discussed, focusing in particular on the two-photon production of W and Z pairs, and the associated photo-production of W and Higgs bosons. Finally, importance of studying the exclusive production of lepton pairs for searches beyond the Standard Model and for calibrating detectors will be addressed.

Information : http://dpnc.unige.ch/seminaire/annonce.html
Organizer : J.-S. Graulich