Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76: 354
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4181-y

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Feasibility studies of the diffractive bremsstrahlung measurement at the LHC

¹ The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 152 Radzikowskiego Str., 31-342, Cracow, Poland
² Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, Cracow University of Technology, 24 Warszawska Str., 31-155, Cracow, Poland

^* e-mail: Janusz.Chwastowski@ifj.edu.pl

Received: 22 March 2016
Accepted: 7 June 2016
Published online: 24 June 2016

Abstract

Feasibility studies of an observation of the exclusive diffractive bremsstrahlung in proton–proton scattering at the centre of mass energy 13  TeV at the LHC are reported. These studies aim at the dedicated data taking periods with low instantaneous luminosity delivered by the LHC where the pile-up interactions can be neglected. A simplified approach to the photon and the scattered proton energy reconstruction is used. The background influence is discussed.