Ultraperipheral Collisions at RHIC and LHC

Abstract

A brief introduction to the physics of ultraperipheral collisions at collider energies is given. Photon-hadron (proton/ nucleus) and photon-photon interactions can be studied in a hitherto unexplored energy regime.

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of PHOTON 2007, Paris 9-13 July 2007, to be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proceedings Supplements)