Results from the CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer (PPS)

POSTER

Abstract

We will describe recent results from the CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer (PPS). Specifically, we will discuss results on the process pp → p l+ l- p(*) with l+l- a muon or an electron pair produced at midrapidity with mass larger than 110 GeV at 13 TeV. One of the two scattered protons is measured in the forward spectrometer, which operated for the first time in 2016, while the second proton either remains intact or is excited and then dissociates into a low-mass state p* , which is undetected. The measurement is based on an integrated luminosity of 9.4 fb-1 collected during standard high-luminosity LHC operation. The present result constitutes the first observation of proton-tagged γγ collisions at the electroweak scale. Prospects for future measurements with proton tagging will be discussed.

Presenters

  • Cristian X Baldenegro Barrera

    University of Kansas

Authors

  • Cristian X Baldenegro Barrera

    University of Kansas