# XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS16)

Apr 11 – 15, 2016
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

## From deep-inelastic structure functions to two-photon dilepton production in proton-proton collisions

Apr 14, 2016, 11:20 AM
15m
Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

### Auditorium

#### DESY Hamburg

Structure Functions and Parton Densities

### Speaker

Prof. Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

### Description

We investigate different methods to incorporate the effect of photons in hard processes. We compare two different approaches used for calculating cross sections for two-photon $p p \to l^+ l^- X$ process. In one of the approaches photon is treated as a collinear parton in the proton. In the second approach recently proposed a $k_t$-factorization method is used. We discuss how results of the collinear parton model depend on the initial condition for the QCD evolution and discuss an approximate treatment where photon is excluded from the combined QCD-QED evolution. We demonstrate that it is not necessary to put photon into the evolution equation as often done recently but it is sufficient to use a simplified approach in which photon couples to quarks and antiquarks which by themselves undergo DGLAP evolution equations. Our $k_t$-factorization results (inelastic photon fluxes in the nucleon) depend on deep-inelastic structure function. We discuss sensitivity of the results to the choice of structure function parametrization and experimental cuts in the $k_t$-factorization approach. We find that results are sensitive to the region of $x$ and $Q^2$ where pQCD DGLAP evolution does not apply. We compare results of our calculations with recent experimental data for dilepton production and find that in most cases the contribution of the photon-photon mechanism is rather small. We discuss how to enhance the photon-photon contribution. We also compare our results to those of recent measurements of exclusive and semi-exclusive $e^+ e^-$ pair production with new experimental data obtained by the CMS collaboration. The presentation will be based on our recent papers [1], [2]. [1] G.~G.~da Silveira, L.~Forthomme, K.~Piotrzkowski, W.~Sch\"afer and A.~Szczurek, Central $\mu^{+} \, \mu^{−}$ production via photon-photon fusion in proton-proton collisions with proton dissociation,'' JHEP {\bf 1502}, 159 (2015) [arXiv:1409.1541 [hep-ph]]. [2] M. {\L}uszczak, W. Sch\"afer and A. Szczurek, "Two-photon dilepton production in proton-proton collisions: two alternative approaches," [arXiv:1510.00294 [ hep-ph]].

### Primary author

Prof. Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

### Co-authors

Dr Marta Luszczak (University of Rzeszow) Dr Wolfgang Schafer (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

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