Glueball Production in Peripheral Heavy-Ion Collisions
arXiv:hep-ph/9907217 · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/25/9/314
Abstract
The method of equivalent quanta is applied both to photon-photon and, by analogy, to double pomeron exchange in heavy-ion collisions. This Weizsäcker-Williams approach is used to calculate production cross sections for the glueball candidate meson via photon-photon and pomeron-pomeron fusion in peripheral heavy-ion collisions at both RHIC and LHC energies. The impact-parameter dependence for total and elastic cross sections are presented, and are compared to results for proton-proton collisions.
15 pages, 6 figures