Electromagnetic processes with quasireal photons in Pb+Pb collisions: QED, QCD, and the QGP
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 √sNN = 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. Here 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.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 1503103
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Physics. A, Journal Name: Nuclear Physics. A Journal Issue: C Vol. 982; ISSN 0375-9474
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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