Electromagnetic interactions in nucleus-nucleus and proton-proton collisions

Abstract

The strong electromagnetic fields associated with ultra-relativistic protons and nuclei correspond to an equivalent flux of photons. At the future Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the corresponding photon-nucleon center of mass energies will be higher than at any existing accelerator. The experimental and theoretical aspects of particle production in electromagnetic interactions at hadron colliders are reviewed.

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. Presented at the International Nuclear Physics Conference INPC2004, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 27 - July 2, 2004. To be published in Nucl. Phys. A