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Photon-photon fusion and tau g-2 measurement in ATLAS

Agnieszka Ogrodnik

SciPost Phys. Proc. 15, 003 (2024) · published 2 April 2024

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51st International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics

Abstract

Relativistic heavy-ion beams at the LHC are accompanied by a large flux of equivalent photons. New measurements of exclusive dilepton production (electron, muon, and tau pairs) performed by the ATLAS experiment are discussed. We present the photon-induced production of tau pairs and constraints on the tau lepton's anomalous magnetic dipole moment. In addition, measurements of photon-induced electron and muon pair production are presented, which provide strong constraints on the nuclear photon flux and its dependence on the impact parameter and photon energy. Forward neutrons are utilised to provide an experimental handle on the impact parameter range sampled in the events.


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