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| contents | In ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at the LHC, each nucleus acts as a source of high-energy quasi-real photons that can participate in scattering processes without causing either participating nucleus to break up and emit forward neutrons. This paper extends recent measurements of $γ+A\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$ production in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with forward neutron emission on exactly one side of the event. The data presented here was recorded by the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC in 2018, corresponding to a luminosity of $1.72$ nb$^{-1}$. These results examines $5.02$ TeV Pb+Pb collisions where neither nucleus breaks up ($0n0n$), providing a mixture of photon--pomeron ($γ+I\!\!P\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$), photon--photon ($γ+γ\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$), and peripheral photonuclear ($γ+A\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$) events. The different processes are statistically separated via a template fit of the minimum rapidity gap distribution. The kinematics of the hard processes are determined from $R = 0.4$ jets reconstructed using the anti-$k_t$ algorithm. The statistical separation of the different processes then allows for the first measurement of $γ+I\!\!P\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$ cross-sections in nuclear collisions at the LHC. The rate for electromagnetic dissociation of $0n0n$ $γ+A\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$ events is also measured and compared to the analogous result from collisions with single-sided neutron emission. These comparisons support the hypothesis that $γ+A\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$ events without forward neutron emission select a more peripheral class of $γ+A$ collisions. |
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| spellingShingle | Measurement of jet photoproduction in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions without nuclear breakup at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with the ATLAS detector ATLAS Collaboration Nuclear Experiment High Energy Physics - Experiment In ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at the LHC, each nucleus acts as a source of high-energy quasi-real photons that can participate in scattering processes without causing either participating nucleus to break up and emit forward neutrons. This paper extends recent measurements of $γ+A\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$ production in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with forward neutron emission on exactly one side of the event. The data presented here was recorded by the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC in 2018, corresponding to a luminosity of $1.72$ nb$^{-1}$. These results examines $5.02$ TeV Pb+Pb collisions where neither nucleus breaks up ($0n0n$), providing a mixture of photon--pomeron ($γ+I\!\!P\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$), photon--photon ($γ+γ\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$), and peripheral photonuclear ($γ+A\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$) events. The different processes are statistically separated via a template fit of the minimum rapidity gap distribution. The kinematics of the hard processes are determined from $R = 0.4$ jets reconstructed using the anti-$k_t$ algorithm. The statistical separation of the different processes then allows for the first measurement of $γ+I\!\!P\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$ cross-sections in nuclear collisions at the LHC. The rate for electromagnetic dissociation of $0n0n$ $γ+A\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$ events is also measured and compared to the analogous result from collisions with single-sided neutron emission. These comparisons support the hypothesis that $γ+A\rightarrow\mathrm{jets}$ events without forward neutron emission select a more peripheral class of $γ+A$ collisions. |
| title | Measurement of jet photoproduction in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions without nuclear breakup at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with the ATLAS detector |
| topic | Nuclear Experiment High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24435 |