Photoproduction of dileptons and photons in p−p collisions at the Large Hadron Collider energies

Abstract

The production of large ${p}_{T}$ dileptons and photons originating from photoproduction processes in p-p collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies is calculated. The comparisons between the exact treatment results and the ones of the equivalent photon approximation approach are expressed as the ${Q}^{2}$ (the virtuality of photon) and ${p}_{T}$ distributions. The method developed by Martin and Ryskin is used for avoiding double counting when the coherent and incoherent contributions are considered simultaneously. The numerical results indicate that the equivalent photon approximation is only effective in small ${Q}^{2}$ region and can be used for coherent photoproduction processes with proper choice of ${Q}_{\mathrm{max}}^{2}$ (the choices ${Q}_{\mathrm{max}}^{2}\ensuremath{\sim}\stackrel{^}{s}$ or $\ensuremath{\infty}$ will cause obvious errors), but cannot be used for incoherent photoproduction processes. The exact treatment is needed to deal accurately with the photoproduction of large ${p}_{T}$ dileptons and photons.