Aspects of Coulomb dissociation and interference in peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions

Conference · Sun Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2001

OSTI ID:799587

Nystrand, Joakim; Baltz, Anthony; Klein, Spencer R

Coherent vector meson production in peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions is discussed. These interactions may occur for impact parameters much larger than the sum of the nuclear radii. Since the vector meson production is always localized to one of the nuclei, the system acts as a two-source interferometer in the transverse plane. By tagging the outgoing nuclei for Coulomb dissociation it is possible to obtain a measure of the impact parameter and thus the source separation in the interferometer. This is of particular interest since the life-time of the vector mesons are generally much shorter than the impact parameters of the collisions.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 799587
• Report Number(s): LBNL-49958; R&D Project: NRNC; B& R KB0201022; TRN: US0203758
• Resource Relation: Conference: Workshop on Electromagnetic Probes of Fundamental Physics, Erice (IT), 10/16/2001--10/21/2001; Other Information: PBD: 21 Oct 2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
DISSOCIATION
IMPACT PARAMETER
INTERFEROMETERS
NUCLEAR RADII
NUCLEI
PHYSICS
PROBES
PRODUCTION
VECTOR MESONS