"Photon-induced Physics at the LHC in the Spotlight"

Dr. Daniel Tapia Takaki Department of Physics and Astronomy, the University of Kansas


By studying photon-induced processes at the LHC one can study a wide variety of physics topics in high energy nuclear and particle physics, expanding in novel ways the physics program using pp and AA collisions. Photon-induced processes allow us to study the proton and nuclear structure as well as to search for physics beyond the standard model. In this talk, a review of recent photon-induced physics results at the LHC will be presented. The prospects for future studies using the Run 2 data from the LHC and beyond will also be discussed.