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Search for an axion-like particle with forward proton scattering in association with photon pairs at ATLAS
(SPRINGER, 2023/07/31) Aad G.; Abbott B.; Abeling K.; Abicht N. J.; Abidi S. H.; Aboulhorma A.; Abramowicz H.; Abreu H.; Abulaiti Y.; Hoffman A. C. Abusleme; Acharya B. S.; Bourdarios C. Adam; Adamczyk L.; Adamek L.; Addepalli S. V.; Addison M. J.; Adelman J.; Adiguzel A.; Adye T.; Affolder A. A.; Afik Y.; Agaras M. N.; Agarwala J.; Aggarwal A.; Agheorghiesei C.; Ahmad A.; Ahmadov F.; Ahmed W. S.; Ahuja S.; Ai X.; Aielli G.; Tamlihat M. Ait; Aitbenchikh B.; Aizenberg I.; Akbiyik M.; Akesson T. P. A.; Akimov A. V.; Akiyama D.; Akolkar N. N.; Al Khoury K.
A search for forward proton scattering in association with light-by-light scattering mediated by an axion-like particle is presented, using the ATLAS Forward Proton spectrometer to detect scattered protons and the central ATLAS detector to detect pairs of outgoing photons. Proton-proton collision data recorded in 2017 at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13TeV were analysed, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 14.6 fb(-1). A total of 441 candidate events were selected. A search was made for a narrow resonance in the diphoton mass distribution, corresponding to an axion-like particle (ALP) with mass in the range 150-1600 GeV. No excess is observed above a smooth background. Upper limits on the production cross section of a narrow resonance are set as a function of the mass, and are interpreted as upper limits on the ALP production coupling constant, assuming 100% decay branching ratio into a photon pair. The inferred upper limit on the coupling constant is in the range 0.04-0.09TeV-1 at 95% confidence level.