Ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions

Abstract

This article presents a very brief review of the physics of Ultra-Peripheral Collisions (UPC) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other nuclear facilities. I discuss several processes of interest such as electron-position pair production, the anti-hydrogen atom, giant resonances, exotic meson production and parton distribution functions.

Comments: 10 pages, 12 figures, Proceedings of the 44th Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Cocoyoc, Mexico, January 2023 - Additional comments and references