CERN Accelerating science

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Report number	arXiv:2009.03838
Title	New opportunities at the photon energy frontier
Author(s)	Klein, Spencer (LBNL, NSD) ; Tapia Takaki, Daniel (Kansas U.) ; Adam, Jaroslav (Brookhaven) ; Aidala, Christine (Michigan U.) ; Angerami, Aaron (LLNL, Livermore) ; Audurier, Benjamin (Ecole Polytechnique) ; Bertulani, Carlos (Texas A-M, Commerce) ; Bierlich, Christian (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.) ; Blok, Boris (Technion) ; Brandenburg, James Daniel (Brookhaven) ; Brodsky, Stanley (SLAC) ; Bylinkin, Aleksandr (Kansas U.) ; Canoa Roman, Veronica (SUNY, Stony Brook) ; Celiberto, Francesco Giovanni (INFN, Pavia ; Pavia U.) ; Cepila, Jan (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Chachamis, Grigorios (CMAF, Lisbon) ; Cole, Brian (Columbia U.) ; Contreras, Guillermo (Prague, Tech. U.) ; d'Enterria, David (CERN) ; Dumitru, Adrian (Baruch Coll.) ; Fernández Téllez, Arturo (Puebla U., Mexico) ; Frankfurt, Leonid (Penn State U. ; Tel Aviv U.) ; Gay Ducati, Maria Beatriz (Rio Grande do Sul U.) ; Geurts, Frank (Rice U.) ; da Silveira, Gustavo Gil (Rio Grande do Sul U.) ; Giuli, Francesco (INFN, Rome2 ; CNISM) ; Goncalves, Victor P. (Pelotas U.) ; Grabowska-Bold, Iwona (AGH-UST, Cracow) ; Guzey, Vadim (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Harland-Lang, Lucian (Oxford U.) ; Hentschinski, Martin (Puebla U., Mexico) ; Hobbs, T.J. (Southern Methodist U.) ; Jalilian-Marian, Jamal (Baruch Coll.) ; Khoze, Valery A. (Durham U., IPPP) ; Kim, Yongsun (Sejong U.) ; Klein, Spencer R. (LBNL, NSD) ; Knapen, Simon (LBL, Berkeley) ; Kłusek-Gawenda, Mariola (Cracow, INP) ; Krelina, Michal (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Kryshen, Evgeny (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Lappi, Tuomas (Jyvaskyla U. ; Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Loizides, Constantin (Oak Ridge) ; Luszczak, Agnieszka (Cracow Tech. U.) ; Machado, Magno (Rio Grande do Sul U.) ; Mäntysaari, Heikki (Jyvaskyla U. ; Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Martins, Daniel (Oak Ridge) ; McNulty, Ronan (University Coll., Dublin) ; Murray, Michael (Kansas U.) ; Nemchik, Jan (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn (Illinois U., Urbana) ; Nystrand, Joakim (Bergen U.) ; Papa, Alessandro (Calabria U. ; INFN, Cosenza) ; Pire, Bernard (Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT) ; Ploskon, Mateusz (LBNL, NSD) ; Przybycien, Marius (AGH-UST, Cracow) ; Ralston, John P. (Kansas U.) ; Rebello Teles, Patricia (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro) ; Royon, Christophe (Kansas U.) ; Schenke, Björn (Brookhaven) ; Schmidke, William (Brookhaven) ; Seger, Janet (Creighton U.) ; Stasto, Anna (Penn State U.) ; Steinberg, Peter (Brookhaven) ; Strikman, Mark (Penn State U.) ; Szczurek, Antoni (Cracow, INP) ; Szymanowski, Lech (NCBJ, Swierk) ; Tapia Takaki, Daniel (Kansas U.) ; Ulrich, Ralf (KIT, Karlsruhe) ; Villalobos Baillie, Orlando (Birmingham U.) ; Vogt, Ramona (LLNL, Livermore ; UC, Davis) ; Wallon, Samuel (IJCLab, Orsay) ; Winn, Michael (IRFU, SPhN, Saclay) ; Xie, Keping (Pittsburgh U.) ; Xu, Zhangbu (Brookhaven) ; Yang, Shuai (Rice U.) ; Zhalov, Mikhail (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Zhou, Jian (Shandong U.)
Imprint	2020-09-08
Number of pages	10
Note	Letter of Interest submitted to Snowmass 2021
Presented at	2021 Snowmass Summer Study, Seattle, WA, United States, 11 - 20 July 2021
Subject category	nucl-ex ; Nuclear Physics - Experiment ; hep-ex ; Particle Physics - Experiment ; hep-ph ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) involving heavy ions and protons are the energy frontier for photon-mediated interactions. UPC photons can be used for many purposes, including probing low-$x$ gluons via photoproduction of dijets and vector mesons, probes of beyond-standard-model processes, such as those enabled by light-by-light scattering, and studies of two-photon production of the Higgs.
Other source	Inspire
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