Ultraperipheral Collisions

/ Authors

K. Hencken, G. Baur, U. Dreyer, D. T. U. Basel, Forschungszentrum Juelich

/ Abstract

Ultraperipheral collisions at heavy ion colliders use the strong Coulomb fields surrounding the ions to study photon-photon and photon-hadron processes at high energy. A number of processes of interest are discussed here.

Ultraperipheral Collisions

/ Authors

K. Hencken, G. Baur, U. Dreyer, D. T. U. Basel, Forschungszentrum Juelich

/ Abstract

Ultraperipheral collisions at heavy ion colliders use the strong Coulomb fields surrounding the ions to study photon-photon and photon-hadron processes at high energy. A number of processes of interest are discussed here.