Strong-Field Effects for Lepton and Photon Production in Collisions of Relativistic Heavy Nuclei at RHIC and LHC
Abstract
We consider effects of strong electromagnetic fields in collisions of ultra-relativistic nuclei at the RHIC and LHC colliders. Since the parameter Zα is not small (Zα≈0.6 for Au-Au and Pb-Pb collisions), the whole series in Zα has to be summed in order to obtain the cross section with sufficient accuracy. For the production of lepton pairs we present new results related to the Coulomb corrections (corresponding to multi-photon exchange of the produced leptons with the nuclei) and to the unitarity corrections (corresponding to the exchange of light-by-light blocks between nuclei). For nuclear bremsstrahlung we calculated the unitarity corrections and a special case related to virtual Delbrück scattering.
Recommended Citation
U. D. Jentschura and V. G. Serbo, "Strong-Field Effects for Lepton and Photon Production in Collisions of Relativistic Heavy Nuclei at RHIC and LHC," Proceedings of the International Conference on the Structure and the Interactions of the Photon (2009, Hamburg, Germany), pp. 407 - 416, May 2010.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.3204/DESY-PROC-2009-03/Serbo
Meeting Name
International Conference on the Structure and the Interactions of the Photon, PHOTON 2009 (2009: May 11-15, Hamburg, Germany)
Department(s)
Physics
Keywords and Phrases
Coulomb Corrections; Heavy Nucleus; Lepton Pairs; Multiphotons; New Results; Pb-Pb Collisions; Photon Production; Unitarity; Colliding Beam Accelerators; Electromagnetic Fields; Lead; Photons
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-3935702331
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Publication Date
15 May 2010
