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Publisher Erratum: The Low soft-photon theorem again (2024)
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It is shown that contrary to claims of Lebiedowicz et al. (Phys Rev D 105(1):014022, 2022) the formulated in the proper physical variables Low theorem (Low in Phys Rev 110(4):974–977, 1958) for soft photon emission does not require any modification.... Read More about Publisher Erratum: The Low soft-photon theorem again.

The Low soft-photon theorem again (2024)
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It is shown that contrary to claims of Lebiedowicz et al. (Phys Rev D 105(1):014022, 2022) the formulated in the proper physical variables Low theorem (Low in Phys Rev 110(4):974–977, 1958) for soft photon emission does not require any modification.... Read More about The Low soft-photon theorem again.

Searches for QCD instantons with forward proton tagging (2023)
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We study the possibility to observe heavy (Minst>60 GeV) QCD instantons at the LHC in events with one or two tagged leading protons including fast simulation of detector and pile-up effects. We show that the expected instanton signal in a single-tagg... Read More about Searches for QCD instantons with forward proton tagging.

Central instanton production (2022)
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We study the central production of QCD instantons at hadron colliders in events with two large rapidity gaps. These gaps in rapidity are formed by either Pomeron or photon exchanges or a combination of the two. The kT-factorization formalism is used... Read More about Central instanton production.

Elastic photon-initiated production at the LHC: the role of hadron-hadron interactions (2021)
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We analyse in detail the role of additional hadron–hadron interactions in elastic photon– initiated (PI) production at the LHC, both in p p and heavy ion collisions. We first demonstrate that the source of difference between our predictions and other... Read More about Elastic photon-initiated production at the LHC: the role of hadron-hadron interactions.

Hunting for QCD instantons at the LHC in events with large rapidity gaps (2021)
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We outline a strategy of how to search for QCD instantons of invariant mass 20–60 GeVin diffractive events in low-luminosity runs at the LHC. We show that, by imposing appropriate selection criteria on the final states, one can select the kinematic r... Read More about Hunting for QCD instantons at the LHC in events with large rapidity gaps.

Dynamics of diffractive dissociation (2021)
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We describe a QCD based model which incorporates the main properties of the inclusive particle distributions expected for diffractive processes, including the diffractive dissociation at high energies. We study, in turn, the total cross section, σtot... Read More about Dynamics of diffractive dissociation.

A new approach to modelling elastic and inelastic photon-initiated production at the LHC: SuperChic 4 (2020)
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We present the results of the new SuperChic 4 Monte Carlo implementation of photon-initiated production in proton–proton collisions, considering as a first example the case of lepton pair production. This is based on the structure function calculatio... Read More about A new approach to modelling elastic and inelastic photon-initiated production at the LHC: SuperChic 4.

Isolating the Odderon in central production in high energy pA and AA collisions (2020)
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We study the rapidity dependence of the central exclusive production cross sections of C-even mesons in pA and AA collisions, where A is a heavy ion. We observe qualitatively different behaviour of the contributions arising from γ-Odderon and Pomeron... Read More about Isolating the Odderon in central production in high energy pA and AA collisions.

Bethe phase including proton excitations (2020)
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We evaluate the contribution of inelastic intermediate states (such as p → N excitations) to the phase between the one-photon-exchange and the “nuclear” high energy pp scattering amplitudes as t → 0, caused by multiphoton diagrams. It turns out to be... Read More about Bethe phase including proton excitations.

Colliding Pomerons (2019)
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We recall the main properties of inclusive particle distributions expected for Pomeron-proton and Pomeron–Pomeron interactions. Due to the small size of the Pomeron we expect larger transverse momenta of secondaries and a smaller probability of multi... Read More about Colliding Pomerons.

The fusion of hard and soft Pomerons: 3-jet diffractive production (2019)
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We consider the central exclusive production of high E_T jets pp\rightarrow p+(X+\mathrm{dijet})+p. In particular we study the possible contamination of the purely exclusive signal by semi-exclusive production where no other secondaries are emitted i... Read More about The fusion of hard and soft Pomerons: 3-jet diffractive production.

Exclusive vector meson production in heavy ion collisions (2019)
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We discuss the salient features of exclusive vector meson production in heavy ion collisions at LHC energies. Special attention is paid to the space-time picture of the process. We account for both coherent and incoherent contributions. The explicit... Read More about Exclusive vector meson production in heavy ion collisions.

LHC searches for Dark Matter in compressed mass scenarios: challenges in the forward proton mode (2019)
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We analyze in detail the LHC prospects at the center-of-mass enery of s√ = 14 TeV for charged electroweakino searches, decaying to leptons, in compressed supersymmetry scenarios, via exclusive photon-initiated pair production. This provides a potenti... Read More about LHC searches for Dark Matter in compressed mass scenarios: challenges in the forward proton mode.

Searching for the odderon in ultraperipheral proton-ion collisions at the LHC (2019)
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We explore the possibility of observing odderon exchange in proton-ion collisions at the LHC, via the ultraperipheral photoproduction of C-even mesons. As well as the signal, we consider in detail the principle backgrounds, due to QCD-initiated produ... Read More about Searching for the odderon in ultraperipheral proton-ion collisions at the LHC.

Exclusive LHC physics with heavy ions: SuperChic 3 (2019)
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We present results of the updated SuperChic 3 Monte Carlo event generator for central exclusive production. This extends the previous treatment of proton–proton collisions to include heavy ion (pA and AA) beams, for both photon and QCD-initiated prod... Read More about Exclusive LHC physics with heavy ions: SuperChic 3.

Black disk radius constrained by unitarity (2018)
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We argue that if the elastic proton–proton cross section increases with energy, the Froissart-like high energy behaviour of the elastic amplitude (which corresponds to a ‘black disk’ of radius R(s) = c ln s −βln(ln s)) is the only possibility to sati... Read More about Black disk radius constrained by unitarity.

Elastic and diffractive scattering at the LHC (2018)
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Inspired by the new TOTEM data on elastic pp scattering at 13 TeV, we study the possibility to describe all the diffractive collider data (, , ) in a wide interval of energy (0.0625 to 13 TeV) in the framework of a two-channel eikonal model. We show... Read More about Elastic and diffractive scattering at the LHC.

Multiple interactions and rapidity gap survival (2018)
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Observations of rare processes containing large rapidity gaps at high energy colliders may be exceptionally informative. However the cross sections of these events are small in comparison with that for the inclusive processes since there is a large p... Read More about Multiple interactions and rapidity gap survival.

Black disk, maximal Odderon and unitarity (2018)
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We argue that the so-called maximal Odderon contribution breaks the ‘black disk’ behaviorof the asymp-totic amplitude, since the cross section of the events with Large Rapidity Gaps grows faster than the total cross section. That is the ‘maximal Odde... Read More about Black disk, maximal Odderon and unitarity.