Heavy Quark Photoproduction in Ultra-peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions

Details Heavy Quark Photoproduction in Ultra-peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions Heavy Quark Photoproduction in Ultra-peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions

2002-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0206220v2

Phys.Rev.C66:044906,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Minor changes to satisfy referees and typo fixes; 52 pages including 17 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.66.044906

Heavy quarks are copiously produced in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions. In the strong electromagnetic fields, c c-bar and b b-bar are produced by photonuclear and two-photon interactions; hadroproduction can occur in grazing interactions. We present the total cross sections, quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions, as well as the Q Q-bar invariant mass spectra from the three production channels. We consider AA and pA collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Large Hadron Collider. We discuss techniques for separating the three processes and describe how the AA to pA production ratios might be measured accurately enough to study nuclear shadowing.

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