Abstract
We calculate the total cross sections and probabilities of electromagnetic productions of electron, muon, and tauon pairs simultaneously. At the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the available electromagnetic energy is sufficient to produce all kinds of leptons coherently. The masses of muons and tauons are large, so their Compton wavelengths are small enough to interact with the colliding nuclei. Therefore, the realistic nuclear form factors are included in the calculations of electromagnetic pair productions. The cross section calculations show that, at LHC energies, the probabilities of simultaneous productions of all kinds of leptons are increased significantly compared to energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Experimentally, observing this simultaneous production can give us important information about strong QED.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 044913 |
Journal | Physical Review C |
Volume | 96 |
Issue number | 4 |
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Publication status | Published - 25 Oct 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 American Physical Society.
Funding
This research is partially supported by the Istanbul Technical University. We personally thank S. R. Klein for valuable advice in calculating the cross sections and for the careful reading of our article.
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Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi |