Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76: 9
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3832-8

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Exclusive physics at the LHC with SuperChic 2

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
² Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
³ Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, 188300, Russia

^* e-mail: l.harland-lang@ucl.ac.uk

Received: 29 October 2015
Accepted: 3 December 2015
Published online: 6 January 2016

Abstract

We present a range of physics results for central exclusive production processes at the LHC, using the new SuperChic 2 Monte Carlo event generator. This includes significant theoretical improvements and updates, most importantly a fully differential treatment of the soft survival factor, as well as a greater number of generated processes. We provide an overview of the latest theoretical framework, and consider in detail a selection of final states, namely exclusive 2 and 3 jets, photoproduced vector mesons, two-photon initiated muon and W boson pairs and heavy quarkonia.