Production of $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ and $t\bar{t}$ pairs via photon-photon processes in proton-proton collisions

Abstract

We review our recent results for production of $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ and $t\bar{t}$ pairs via photon-photon fusion. A theoretical approach is presented in short. We include transverse momenta of photons when calculating fluxes of photons. Then we discuss our results for cross section (total and differential) for $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ production. Results for different parametrizations of proton structure functions are used to calculate inelastic fluxes of photons. A discussion on rapidity gap survival probability due to remnant fragmentation is presented. A similar discussion is presented for $t\bar{t}$ production.

10 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables a talk presented by A.Szczurek at DIS2019, 8-12 April 2019, Torino, Italy

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• Sensitivity to anomalous quartic gauge couplings in photon-photon interactions at the LHC
• Rapidity gap survival factors caused by remnant fragmentation for $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ pair production via ${\gamma }^{\ast }{\gamma }^{\ast }\to W^{+}{W}^{-}$ subprocess with photon transverse momenta