Coherent lepton pair production in hadronic heavy ion collisions

Abstract

Recently, significant enhancements of $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ pair production at very low transverse momentum ($p_T<0.15$ GeV/c) were observed by the STAR collaboration in peripheral hadronic A+A collisions. This excesses can not be described by the QGP thermal radiation and $\rho$ in-medium broadening calculations. This is a sign of coherent photon-photon interactions, which were conventionally studied only in ultra-peripheral collisions. In this article, we present calculations of lepton pair ($e^{+}{e}^{-}$ and ${\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$) production from coherent photon-photon interactions in hadronic A+A collisions at RHIC and LHC energies within the STAR and ALICE acceptance.

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