arXiv:hep-ph/0503292·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Ultraperipheral Collisions
Kai Hencken (1)🇨🇭 · Gerhard Baur (2)🇩🇪 · Ute Dreyer (1)🇨🇭 · Dirk Trautmann (1) ((1) Universitaet Basel, (2) Forschungszentrum Juelich)🇨🇭
Abstract
Ultraperipheral collisions at heavy ion colliders use the strong Coulomb fields surrounding the ions to study photon-photon and photon-hadron processes at high energy. A number of processes of interest are discussed here.
Comments: 12 pages, Talk presented at "Physics at LHC", Vienna, Austria, July 13-17, 2004. To be published in Czechoslovak Journal of Physics