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most citedInitial transverse-momentum broadening of Breit-Wheeler process in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

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hep-ph2026

Interference-induced entanglement in an effectively zero-lifetime particle pair

Xin Wu, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

Quantum entanglement in high-energy collisions is often obscured by finite lifetimes, dynamical evolution, and final-state interactions, complicating the identification of genuinel…

hep-ph2025

Probing the Collision Geometry via Two-Photon Processes in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Jiaxuan Luo, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +4

The initial collision geometry, including the reaction plane, is crucial for interpreting collective phenomena in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, yet it remains experimentally i…

hep-ph2025

Calculations of Di-Hadron Production via Two-Photon Processes in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Luobing Wang, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

Two-photon processes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have emerged as a critical probe of quantum electrodynamics in ultra-intense electromagnetic fields, with recent focus ext…

hep-ph2025

Probing Gluon Shadowing in Heavy Nuclei through Bayesian Reweighting of J/ Photoproduction in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions

Pengzhong Lu, Zebo Tang, Xin Wu +1

The gluon distribution in nuclei plays a pivotal role in understanding quantum chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme nuclear environments, yet remains poorly constrained compared to q…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Centrality Manipulation in Exclusive Photoproduction at the Electron-Ion Collider

Xin Wu, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

In the context of future electron-ion collision experiments, particularly the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) and the Electron-Ion Collider in China (EicC), investigating exclusive pho…

hep-ph2024

Exploring the photoproduction of and in hadronic heavy-ion collisions

Kaifeng Shen, Xin Wu, Zebo Tang +1

Significant enhancements of J/ production have been observed by various experiments at RHIC and LHC for very low transverse momenta in peripheral heavy-ion collisions, which has…

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

The effect of initial nuclear deformation on dielectron photoproduction in hadronic heavy-ion collisions

Jiaxuan. Luo, Xinbai. Li, Zebo. Tang +2

Significant excesses of pair production at very low transverse momentum ( 0.15 GeV/c) were observed by the STAR collaboration in hadronic heavy-ion collisions. Such…

hep-ph2023

Exploring the higher-order QED effects on the differential distributions of Breit-Wheeler process in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Xinbai. Li, Jiaxuan. Luo, Zebo. Tang +2

Extensive studies have been conducted in the past few decades to investigate potential signatures of higher-order QED effects in high-energy electromagnetic scattering processes. I…

hep-ph2023★ 18 cited

Reaction plane alignment with linearly polarized photon in heavy-ion collisions

Xin Wu, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

The collective observables play critical roles in probing the properties of quark-gluon-plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in which the information on initial col…

hep-ph2021★ 22 cited

Discovery of higher order QED effect for the vacuum pair production

Wangmei Zha, Zebo Tang

The higher order quantum electrodynamics (QED) effect for vacuum pair production has been searched without success since 1954. In this paper, we show that the lowest order QED calc…

hep-ph2020★ 34 cited

Exploring the double-slit interference with linearly polarized photons

Wangmei Zha, James Daniel Brandenburg, Lijuan Ruan +2

The linearly polarized quasi-real photons from the highly Lorentz-contracted Coulomb fields of relativistic heavy ions can fluctuate to quark-antiquark pairs, scatter off a target…

hep-ph2020★ 6 cited

Acoplanarity of QED pairs accompanied by nuclear dissociation in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions

James Daniel Brandenburg, Wei Li, Lijuan Ruan +4

This paper investigates the transverse momentum broadening effect for electromagnetic production of dileptons in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions accompanied by nuclear dissoc…

hep-ph2018★ 36 cited

Double-slit experiment at fermi scale: coherent photoproduction in heavy-ion collisions

Wangmei Zha, Lijuan Ruan, Zebo Tang +2

The double-slit experiment has become a classic thought experiment, for its clarity in expressing the central puzzle of quantum mechanics -- wave-particle complementarity. Such wav…

hep-ph2018★ 23 cited

Coherent photo-produced J and dielectron yields in isobaric collisions

Wangmei Zha, Lijuan Ruan, Zebo Tang +2

Recently, significant enhancements of J/ and pair production at very low transverse momenta were observed by the STAR and ALICE collaboration in peripheral hadroni…