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New Results for Ultraperipheral Heavy Ion Collisions.

Authors :
Szczurek, Antoni
Klusek-Gawenda, Mariola
Lebiedowicz, Piotr
Schafer, Wolfgang
Source :
AIP Conference Proceedings; 2017, Vol. 1819 Issue 1, p1-6, 6p, 3 Diagrams, 1 Chart, 3 Graphs, 1 Map
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

We discuss diphoton semi(exclusive) production in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at energy of ys<subscript>NN</subscript> = 5.5 TeV (LHC). The nuclear calculations are based on equivalent photon approximation in the impact parameter space. The cross sections for elementary γγ → yy subprocess are calculated including three different mechanisms: box diagrams with leptons and quarks in the loops, a VDM-Regge contribution with virtual intermediate hadronic excitations of the photons and the two-gluon exchange contribution (formally three-loops). We got relatively high cross sections in PbPb collisions. This opens a possibility to study the γγ → γγ (quasi)elastic scattering at the LHC. We find that the cross section for elastic γγ scattering could be measured in the lead-lead collisions for the diphoton invariant mass up to ψ <subscript>γγ</subscript> 15 - 20 GeV. We identify region(s) of phase space where the two-gluon exchange contribution becomes important ingredient compared to box and nonperturbative VDM-Regge mechanisms. We discuss also first results concerning production of two e+e-pairs in UPCs of heavy ions. We considered only double scattering mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0094243X
Volume :
1819
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
AIP Conference Proceedings
Publication Type :
Conference
Accession number :
121554163
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4977171