Central ${\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ production via photon-photon fusion in proton-proton collisions with proton dissociation

Gustavo Gil da Silveira, Laurent Forthomme, Krzysztof Piotrzkowski +2

We present a formalism which uses fluxes of equivalent photons including transverse momenta of the intermediate photons. The formalism reminds the familiar $k_t$-factorization appr…