Professional career
Associate Professor at UFRGS & Researcher Collaborator at UERJ
Analyst of the Forward Physics and Small-x QCD group of CMS Collaboration (CERN)
Coordinator of the Monte Carlo Generator Working Group of CT-PPS
Part-time HEP phenomenologist
Research Interests
High-energy photon physics in pp, pA, and AA collisions
Exclusive photo-production in heavy-ion collisions
Monte Carlo generators for exclusive and diffractive processes
Mechanisms for elastic production
Highlights
Observation of proton-tagged, central (semi)exclusive production of high-mass lepton pairs in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer
CMS & TOTEM Collaboration
Paper: JHEP 07 (2018) 153
arXiv: 1803.04496[hep-ex]
Light is seen to scatter off light
ATLAS Collaboration Paper: Nature Physics 13 (2017) 852 arXiv: 1702.01625[hep-ex] Related to Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (2013) 080405 |
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Constraining the photon flux in two-photon processes at the LHC
G. G. da Silveira, V. P. Gonçalves
Paper: Phys. Rev. D 92 (2015) 014013
arXiv: 1502.01352[hep-hp]
Probing the photon flux in the diffractive quarkonium photoproduction at LHC
V. P. Gonçalves, G. G. da Silveira
Paper: Phys. Rev. D 91 (2015) 054013
arXiv: 1502.05837[hep-hp]
Central μ+μ− production via photon-photon fusion in proton-proton collisions
with proton dissociation
G. G. da Silveira, Forthomme, L., Piotrzkowski, K., Schaefer, W., Szczurek, A.
Paper: JHEP 02 (2015) 159
arXiv: 1409.1541[hep-hp]
PRL Synopsis
Observing Light-by-Light Scattering at the Large Hadron Collider
David d'Enterria and Gustavo G. da Silveira
Paper: Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (2013) 080405
arXiv: 1305.7142[hep-hp]
CERN Courier
CMS sees first direct evidence for γγ→WW
CMS Collaboration
Paper: JHEP 07 (2013) 116111
arXiv: 1305.5596[hep-ex]
The LHC as a photon collider
2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: François Englert and Peter Higgs
CERN celebration ( Photo, FactSheet ) :: CMS and ATLAS contributions
CERN celebration ( Photo, FactSheet ) :: CMS and ATLAS contributions