Lepton pair production through two photon process in heavy ion collisions
Abstract
This paper investigates the electromagnetic production of lepton pairs with low total transverse momentum in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. First, we estimate the initial photons' transverse momentum contributions by employing models where the average transverse momentum squared of the incoming photon can be calculated in the equivalent photon approximation. We further derive an all order QED resummation for the soft photon radiation, which gives an excellent description of the ATLAS data in ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC. For peripheral and central collisions, additional pT-broadening effects from multiple interactions with the medium and the magnetic field contributions from the quark-gluon plasma are also discussed.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1712832
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1762197
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 11575070; FG02-92ER40699
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. D.
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Volume: 102 Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Klein, Spencer, Mueller, A. H., Xiao, Bo-Wen, and Yuan, Feng. Lepton pair production through two photon process in heavy ion collisions. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.094013.
Klein, Spencer, Mueller, A. H., Xiao, Bo-Wen, & Yuan, Feng. Lepton pair production through two photon process in heavy ion collisions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.094013
Klein, Spencer, Mueller, A. H., Xiao, Bo-Wen, and Yuan, Feng. Fri .
"Lepton pair production through two photon process in heavy ion collisions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.094013.
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abstractNote = {This paper investigates the electromagnetic production of lepton pairs with low total transverse momentum in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. First, we estimate the initial photons' transverse momentum contributions by employing models where the average transverse momentum squared of the incoming photon can be calculated in the equivalent photon approximation. We further derive an all order QED resummation for the soft photon radiation, which gives an excellent description of the ATLAS data in ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC. For peripheral and central collisions, additional pT-broadening effects from multiple interactions with the medium and the magnetic field contributions from the quark-gluon plasma are also discussed.},
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year = {Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2020}
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.094013
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