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PHYSICS LETTERS B
卷 761, 期 -, 页码 399-407出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.08.059
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- Centre for Innovation and Transfer of Natural Sciences and Engineering Knowledge in Rzeszow
- [DEC-2014/15/B/ST2/02528]
We discuss the two-gluon exchange contribution (formally three-loops) to elastic photon-photon scattering in the high-energy approximation. The elastic gamma gamma -> gamma gamma amplitude is given in the impact-factor representation for all helicity configurations and finite quark masses. We discuss the importance of including the charm quark, which contribution, due to interference, can enhance the cross section considerably. We investigate the contribution to the gamma gamma -> gamma gamma amplitude from the soft region, by studying its dependence on nonperturbative gluon mass. Helicity-flip contributions are shown to be much smaller than helicity-conserving ones. We identify region(s) of phase space where the two-gluon exchange contribution becomes important ingredient compared to box and nonperturbative VDM-Regge mechanisms considered in the literature. Consequences for the AA -> AA gamma gamma reaction are discussed. Several differential distributions are shown. A feasibility study to observe the effect of two-gluon exchange is presented. We perform a similar analysis for the pp -> pp gamma gamma reaction. Only by imposing severe cuts on M-gamma gamma and a narrow window on photon transverse momenta the two gluon contribution becomes comparable to the box contribution but the corresponding cross section is rather small. (C) 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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