Light-by-light scattering with intact protons at the LHC: from standard model to new physics

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-27

  Fichet, Sylvain ^a   von Gersdorff, Gero ^b   Lenzi, Bruno ^c   Royon, Christophe ^d   Saimpert, Matthias ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Phenomenology of Large extra dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928389689     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2015)165     Document Type: Article

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