Ultraperipheral Collisions

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.

12 pages, Talk presented at "Physics at LHC", Vienna, Austria, July 13-17, 2004. To be published in Czechoslovak Journal of Physics

References in corpus (4)

• Coherent gamma-gamma and gamma-A interactions in very peripheral collisions at relativistic ion colliders
• Production of $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ Pairs Accompanied by Nuclear Dissociation in Ultra-Peripheral Heavy Ion Collision
• Jet Photoproduction in Peripheral Heavy-Ion Collisions
• A Nuclear Physics Program at the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider