Four-lepton production from photon-induced reactions in $pp$ collisions at the LHC

Abstract

The cross sections for the reaction $\gamma \gamma \to 4\ell$ in proton--proton collisions are calculated at the LHC energies. We show that the purely electroweak process $\gamma \gamma \to 4\ell$ can be studied at the LHC and can constitute a background to other processes with $4\ell$ or $2\ell$ final states.

10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, Presented at the Cracow Epiphany Conference, Krakow, Poland (2016)

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