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Predictions for neutron-tagged Coulomb dissociation in ultraperipheral Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions
Huda Nasrulloh, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +4
The photonuclear response reflects nuclear structure and the dynamics of excitation and decay, with neutron-emission channels retaining information that can be obscured in inclusiv…
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…
Influence of the residual magnetic field on the azimuthal distribution of final-state particles in photon-nuclear processes
Zhan Zhang, Xin Wu, Xinbai Li +2
In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, charged particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light, and their external electromagnetic fields can be effectively approximated as q…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Contribution of coherent electron production to measurements of heavy-flavor decayed electrons in heavy-ion collisions
Shenghui Zhang, Rongrong Ma, Yuanjing Ji +4
Heavy quarks, produced at early stages of heavy-ion collisions, are an excellent probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) also created in these collisions. Electrons from open heavy-f…
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…
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…
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…
Report on Progress in Physics: Observation of the Breit-Wheeler Process and Vacuum Birefringence in Heavy-Ion Collisions
James Daniel Brandenburg, Janet Seger, Zhangbu Xu +1
This Report reviews the effort over several decades to observe the linear Breit-Wheeler process () and vacuum birefringence in high-energy particle and heavy-…
Search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at the EIC with the ECCE Detector
J. -L. Zhang, S. Mantry, J. K. Adkins +276
The recently approved Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will provide a unique new opportunity for searches of charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) and other new physics scenarios. In c…
Exploring gluon tomography with polarization dependent diffractive J/ production
James Daniel Brandenburg, Zhangbu Xu, Wangmei Zha +3
We study azimuthal asymmetries in diffractive J/ production in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies using the color glass condensate effective theory. O…
Pattern of Global Spin Alignment of and mesons in Heavy-Ion Collisions
STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +379
Notwithstanding decades of progress since Yukawa first developed a description of the force between nucleons in terms of meson exchange, a full understanding of the strong interact…
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…
Mapping the Electromagnetic Fields of Heavy-Ion Collisions with the Breit-Wheeler Process
James Daniel Brandenburg, Wangmei Zha, Zhangbu Xu
Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are expected to produce the strongest electromagnetic fields in the known Universe. These highly-Lorentz contracted fields can manifest them…
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…
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…
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…
Photoproduction of J/ in non-single-diffractive p+p collisions
Zehua Cao, Lijuan Ruan, Zebo Tang +4
Recently, significant enhancements of J/ production at very low transverse momenta were observed by the ALICE and STAR collaboration in peripheral hadronic A+A collisions. The a…
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…
Coherent lepton pair production in hadronic heavy ion collisions
W. Zha, L. Ruan, Z. Tang +2
Recently, significant enhancements of pair production at very low transverse momentum ( GeV/c) were observed by the STAR collaboration in peripheral had…