2015/02/24 by Klein, Spencer R. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1502.06662
openalex publication_date 2015/02/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of ions allow us to study photonuclear and two-photon interactions at energies above those available at fixed target accelerators. For heavy ions, the couplings are large enough so that multi-photon interactions are possible, and higher order corrections are expected to be significant. In this writeup, I present some recent UPC results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and discuss some future prospects. I also draw parallels between UPC data and that expected at an electron-ion collider (EIC), and show how UPCs are a useful lead-in to EIC physics. This writeup is based on a talk at "Initial State 2014," (IS2014), with a focus on the newest results. One important result is that comparison of the RHIC (and LHC) results on coherent ρ0 photoproduction show evidence for nuclear suppression, compared to a calculating based on γp cross-sections.