2001/12/17 by J. Nystrand, Joakim Nystrand, Nystrand, Joakim
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/0112055
10 pages, 4 figures, Presented at the IXth Blois Workshop on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, Pruhonice near Prague, Czech Republic, June 9-15, 2001
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At the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, particles will be produced in coherent and diffractive nuclear interactions. In extremely peripheral nuclear collisions (b>2R), coherent interactions occur at very high rates and are dominated by photon-Pomeron or photon-meson processes. In these reactions, the photon and the Pomeron/meson from the electromagnetic and nuclear fields couple coherently to all nucleons. The rates for photonuclear interactions are roughly two orders of magnitude larger than for two-photon interactions at comparable center-of-mass energies.