https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8393-9
Letter
Diffractive
production in pp collisions at the LHC
1
Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Caixa Postal 354, CEP 96010-090, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
2
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Caixa Postal 68528, CEP 21941-972, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Received:
6
July
2020
Accepted:
22
August
2020
Published online:
10
September
2020
In this letter we estimate the contribution of the double diffractive processes for the diphoton production in pp collisions at the large hadron collider (LHC). The acceptance of the central and forward LHC detectors is taken into account and predictions for the invariant mass, rapidity and, transverse momentum distributions are presented. A comparison with the predictions for the light-by-light (LbL) scattering and exclusive diphoton production is performed. We demonstrate that the events associated to double diffractive processes can be separated and its study can be used to constrain the behavior of the diffractive parton distribution functions.
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