CP3 Lunch - Exclusive production at the LHC - Nicolas Schul

Wednesday 28 Apr 2010, 13:00 → 13:50 Europe/Brussels

Seminar room (E.349)

At hadron colliders, the term 'Exclusive production' refers to processes where the two protons remain intact after the collision and escape undetected along the beamline. Exclusive final states can arise at the LHC from three classes of interactions: two-photon production, diffractive photo-production and central exclusive production. After a brief introduction to these processes, search for exclusive rho at 900GeV and first commissioning of the exclusivity conditions with the recent 7TeV runs will be presented.