Aad, G.Abbott, B.Abeling, K.Abicht, N. J.Abidi, S. H.Aboulhorma, A.Çetin, Serkant Ali2024-05-192024-05-1920231029-8479https://doi.org10.1007/JHEP07(2023)234https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12713/4984A search for forward proton scattering in association with light-by-light scattering mediated by an axion-like particle is presented, using the ATLAS Forward Proton spectrometer to detect scattered protons and the central ATLAS detector to detect pairs of outgoing photons. Proton-proton collision data recorded in 2017 at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13TeV were analysed, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 14.6 fb(-1). A total of 441 candidate events were selected. A search was made for a narrow resonance in the diphoton mass distribution, corresponding to an axion-like particle (ALP) with mass in the range 150-1600 GeV. No excess is observed above a smooth background. Upper limits on the production cross section of a narrow resonance are set as a function of the mass, and are interpreted as upper limits on the ALP production coupling constant, assuming 100% decay branching ratio into a photon pair. The inferred upper limit on the coupling constant is in the range 0.04-0.09TeV-1 at 95% confidence level.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCp ViolationHadron-Hadron ScatteringArticle7WOS:0010624201000012-s2.0-85167575501N/A10.1007/JHEP07(2023)234Q2