Constraint on Born-Infeld Theory from Light-by-Light Scattering at the LHC

Authors

  • Jonathan Richard Ellis Kings College London
  • Nikolaos Mavromatos Kings College London
  • Tevong You Cambridge University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23727/CERN-Proceedings-2018-001.69

Keywords:

Light-by-Light scattering, LHC, ATLAS, Born-Infeld theory, magnetic monopole

Abstract

The recent measurement by ATLAS of light-by-light scattering in LHC Pb- Pb collisions is the first direct evidence for this basic process. We find that it excludes a range of the mass scale of a nonlinear Born-Infeld extension of QED that is

Author Biographies

Jonathan Richard Ellis, Kings College London

Physics Department

Professor

Nikolaos Mavromatos, Kings College London

Physics Department

Professor

Tevong You, Cambridge University

DAMTP and Cavendish Laboratory

Junior Research Fellow

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Published

2018-12-20

Issue

Vol. 1 (2018): Proceedings of the PHOTON'17 Conference

Section

Photon-photon collisions at hadron colliders

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