2007/06/05 by Gerhard Baur, Kai Hencken, Dirk Trautmann · 2 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #nucl-th #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2007.09.002
published as Phys.Rept.453:1-27,2007 · 51 pages, 16 figures, submitted to Physics Reports
arxiv created 2007/06/05 · openalex publication_date 2007/09/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
In recent years, a large number of papers have appeared that dealt with \EPEM pair production in heavy ion collisions at high energies. To a large extent these studies were motivated by the existence of relativistic heavy ion accelerators all over the world. There pair production can be studied in so called ``ultra-peripheral collisions'', where the ions do not come close enough to interact strongly with each other. Various different methods have been used and it is the purpose of this review to present a unified picture of the present status of the field.