Ultra-peripheral collisions of fully stripped gold ions at RHIC energies

M. Cem Güçlü

doi:10.1088/0954-3899/31/4/029

Ultra-peripheral collisions of fully stripped gold ions at RHIC energies

M. Cem Güçlü^*

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Department of Physics Engineering

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Abstract

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the strong Lorentz-contracted electromagnetic fields are capable of producing copious numbers of lepton pairs through the two-photon mechanism. The calculated cross section of electron-positron pair production at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is about 33 000 barns and pair production can occur at large impact parameters. Here we calculate differential cross sections of pair production as a function of transverse momentum p_T, rapidity, invariant mass and impact parameter.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	S239-S243
Journal	Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Volume	31
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/31/4/029
Publication status	Published - Apr 2005

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Ultra-peripheral collisions of fully stripped gold ions at RHIC energies

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