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
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.
© The Author(s), 2016