Electromagnetic processes, both photon-photon and photon-nucleus, are shown to be useful in studying aspects of QED, QCD, and potentially the QGP. Using lead-lead collisions at root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV, the ATLAS detector has performed measurements of exclusive dimuon production, light-by-light scattering (via exclusive diphoton production), and photo-nuclear dijet production. These are all important examples of ultraperipheral collisions, where the nuclei do not interact hadronically. A recent study of the opening angles of dimuons produced in hadronic heavy-ion collisions, after subtracting heavy-flavor backgrounds, demonstrates that the dimuons carry information correlated with the overlap geometry, potentially about the density of charges in the QGP itself.

Electromagnetic processes with quasireal photons in Pb plus Pb collisions: QED, QCD, and the QGP / Steinberg, P., Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abhayasinghe, D.K., Abidi, S.H., AbouZeid, O.S., Abraham, N.L., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B.S., Adachi, S., Adam, L., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J., Adersberger, M., Adiguzel, A., et al.. - In: NUCLEAR PHYSICS. A. - ISSN 0375-9474. - 982:(2019), pp. 259-262. [10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.10.087]

Electromagnetic processes with quasireal photons in Pb plus Pb collisions: QED, QCD, and the QGP

Artoni, G.;Bagnaia, P.;Betti, A.;Bini, C.;De Cecco, S.;Gentile, S.;Giagu, S.;Kado, M.;Lacava, F.;Luci, C.;Messina, A.;Policicchio, A.;Sebastiani, C. D.;
2019

Abstract

Electromagnetic processes, both photon-photon and photon-nucleus, are shown to be useful in studying aspects of QED, QCD, and potentially the QGP. Using lead-lead collisions at root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV, the ATLAS detector has performed measurements of exclusive dimuon production, light-by-light scattering (via exclusive diphoton production), and photo-nuclear dijet production. These are all important examples of ultraperipheral collisions, where the nuclei do not interact hadronically. A recent study of the opening angles of dimuons produced in hadronic heavy-ion collisions, after subtracting heavy-flavor backgrounds, demonstrates that the dimuons carry information correlated with the overlap geometry, potentially about the density of charges in the QGP itself.
2019
LHC; Electromagnetic processes; ultraperipheral collisions
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Electromagnetic processes with quasireal photons in Pb plus Pb collisions: QED, QCD, and the QGP / Steinberg, P., Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abhayasinghe, D.K., Abidi, S.H., AbouZeid, O.S., Abraham, N.L., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B.S., Adachi, S., Adam, L., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J., Adersberger, M., Adiguzel, A., et al.. - In: NUCLEAR PHYSICS. A. - ISSN 0375-9474. - 982:(2019), pp. 259-262. [10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.10.087]
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